| Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - 316 páginas
...Doctrine be "indelibly engraved upon the portals of the State Department."2t So Olney pulled the trigger: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition."" Lord Salisbury scoffed at the Yankee presumption, and the crisis lasted until the British cabinet,... | |
| John V. Denson - 1997 - 494 páginas
...administration Secretary of State Richard Olney gave the Monroe Doctrine a new emphasis when he said, "Today, the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."4 But the New Manifest Destiny was broader and more ambitious than renewed pursuit of... | |
| John Malloy Owen - 1997 - 268 páginas
...rendered any European control over "an American state unnatural and inexpedient." "Today," Olney insisted, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Olney asked that London reply to the dispatch before the President's annual message to Congress on... | |
| Gilbert Michael Joseph, Catherine LeGrand, Ricardo Donato Salvatore - 1998 - 604 páginas
...Doctrine was a reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Secretary of State Olney announced in 1895 tnat "today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition," in Walter LeFeber, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. 2, The American Search... | |
| Fareed Zakaria - 1999 - 210 páginas
...to intervene. Asserting an American protectorate over the entire hemisphere, Olney famously went on, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Olney explained that American influence was so strong "because in addition to all other grounds, its... | |
| Lars Schoultz - 1998 - 500 páginas
...of the situation and practically invulnerable as against any or all powers." Because of this power, "today the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."19 After delivering the note as instructed, Ambassador Bayard reported that Salisbury... | |
| Walter LaFeber - 1998 - 484 páginas
...however, with the more mundane matter of the Orinoco River. First, however, he wrote the famous phrase: Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fíat is law upon the subjects to which it confínes its interposition. Why? It is not because of the... | |
| Francis Anthony Boyle - 1999 - 236 páginas
...example, in 1895 President Cleveland's secretary of state, Richard Olney, stated quite forthrightly: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."1 As a result of its easy victory over Spain in 1898, the United States quickly came... | |
| Kenneth Duane Lehman - 1999 - 322 páginas
...Venezuelan border affair: "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent [hemisphere] and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition." Both the success of the United States and its proximity to Latin America made it so. 51 In the years... | |
| Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 páginas
...Secretary of State Richard OIney wrote to Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, that "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." This pronundamento naturally angered Canada and all the states of Latin America, and Lord Salisbury... | |
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