America's Foreign Policy (Classic Reprint): Essays and Addresses - Couverture souple

Theodore Salisbury Woolsey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331264421 ISBN 13 : 9781331264422

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from America's Foreign Policy: Essays and Addresses

How this change was to come, no man could anticipate. That we, as a people, are nearer to its realization to-day than ever before, is a fact which stares us in the face.

One important step in the new program, call it colonialism or imperialism or what you will, has been taken in the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. And the motive for it largely was their strategical impor tance and their convenience as a stepping stone to the Philippines.

The terms of peace to be agreed upon with Spain will go far to decide our future des tiny. A wonderful chance Of aggrandize ment seems to be within our grasp. Shall we seize it? Ought we to resist it? Is it consistent with our true mission, with our highest development?

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How can we be sure that this opportunity is a responsibility to be borne, and not a temptation to be resisted I An opportunity is not necessarily a reason. A nd, again, does the possession of colonies, for a people organized as we are, promise a healthful growth of trade and markets, or such an entanglement with the rivalries, jealousies, and ambitions of other and powerful nations as to injui eboth? Already in the manoeuvering of the Germans for position at Manila, we may see a sample of the difficulties of the situation. In this connection, let me say very frankly that, if I understand the nature of the American aright, the one thing which he will not put up with is an attempt to limit his prerogatives as conqueror or treatymaker. Generous and broad-minded he may be in his terms of peace; but to have those terms dictated by a European concert, to be put on the plane of Turkey or of Greece, or even to be curbed in victory like Eussia or Japan, is a thing not to be endured. He would fight in preference. And yet it is to just such a necessity that the new policy would expose him. From a single power like Germany he has nothing to fear, because Germany sreal influence is continental. It does not touch him nearly.
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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331264421
• ISBN 13: 9781331264422
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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