The Monroe Doctrine: An Article on the Monroe Doctrine, Published in the Chicago Legal News1913 - 11 pages |
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Page 6 - Mexico, and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America under the auspices of any European power.
Page 8 - While Venezuela charges such usurpation Great Britain denies it, and the United States, until the merits are authoritatively ascertained, can take sides with neither. But while this is so — while the United States may not, under existing circumstances at least, take upon itself to say which of the two parties is right and which wrong — it is certainly within its right to demand that the truth shall be ascertained.
Page 4 - ... President himself, does not come within the declarations of Mr. Monroe; and that they do not furnish the slightest support to the measure reported by the committee. In the message referred to, that of 1823, Mr. Monroe makes three distinct declarations. The first, and by far the most important, announces that the United States would regard any attempt on the part of the allied powers to extend their system to this country as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 10 - ... questions of national honor with regard to the promises made to Tewfik Pasha in 1879, questions of good government with regard to the suppression of the Arabist movement and the reforms of the administration, questions of finance with regard to the Egyptian debt, and questions of the rights of other states in connection with the dual control which was shared with France, and the suspension of the Law of Liquidation, which was signed by no less than fourteen Powers.
Page 8 - On the contrary, we believed that the effects of our acquiescence in Great Britain's pretensions would amount to a failure to uphold and maintain a principle universally accepted by our Government and our people as vitally essential to our national integrity and welfare. The arbitration, for which Venezuela pleaded, would have adjudged the exact condition of the rival claims, would have forever silenced Venezuela's complaints...
Page 5 - ... have never received the sanction of an act or resolution of Congress; nor have they any of that authority which European governments attach to a royal ordinance. They are, in fact, only the declarations of an existing administration of what its own policy would be, and what it thinks should ever be the policy of the country, on a subject of paramount and permanent interest.
Page 4 - Flushed with success hi thus suppressing liberty of the populace, the Holy Alliance deliberately and offensively conspired to restore the revolting States in Central and South America and in Mexico to the dominion and control of Spain. England refused to join in this compulsion of American States, and said that she would consider any intervention, by force or menace, in the affairs of these States as a reason for recognizing them without delay.
Page 5 - The original Monroe Doctrine was at once effective. Canning was so much interested in the result that he claimed it for himself and said (21 Dec. 1826) : I looked another way . I sought for compensation in another hemisphere. ... I called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old.* In reality the United States had struck out a policy for itself.
Page 4 - Alliance announced that the sovereigns united to rule justly and mercifully, to regard one another as brothers, to treat their subjects as children, and to apply to politics and international affairs the principles of Christian religion.
Page 8 - Salisbury replied very tartly to the effect that "it is a controversy with which the United States has no apparent concern.