The Gravest 366 Days: Editorials Reprinted from the Evening Mail, of New York CityNew York Evening Mail, 1916 - 622 páginas |
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... able to keep at arm's length any sea power in the world . - Feb . 10 , 1916 . TO ELIHU ROOT By JOHN W. BURGESS Mr. Elihu Root is reported to have said in his address to the state con- vention of his party in Carnegie Hall , February 15 ...
... able to keep at arm's length any sea power in the world . - Feb . 10 , 1916 . TO ELIHU ROOT By JOHN W. BURGESS Mr. Elihu Root is reported to have said in his address to the state con- vention of his party in Carnegie Hall , February 15 ...
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... able and willing to preserve it . We can still save the law of the sea . We can , if we choose , demand that all belligerents in this war observe the Declaration of London as a code of naval warfare . No belligerent has the force to ...
... able and willing to preserve it . We can still save the law of the sea . We can , if we choose , demand that all belligerents in this war observe the Declaration of London as a code of naval warfare . No belligerent has the force to ...
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... able to cope with the warship , which in- stead of sinking it held it up and searched it . The merchant ship's guns could not be of sufficient size so that , if the warship came up near , the merchantman would be able to fire into the ...
... able to cope with the warship , which in- stead of sinking it held it up and searched it . The merchant ship's guns could not be of sufficient size so that , if the warship came up near , the merchantman would be able to fire into the ...
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... able to get any broad , definite and binding promise from Germany because of our fail- ure to take action against the Brit- ish starvation policy with which the German abuse of submarines is in- separably connected . And now Lord Cecil ...
... able to get any broad , definite and binding promise from Germany because of our fail- ure to take action against the Brit- ish starvation policy with which the German abuse of submarines is in- separably connected . And now Lord Cecil ...
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... able to catch the blockade breaker and re- assert the effectiveness of the block- ade ? Until that reassertion occurs , must not the blockader admit the inaffectiveness of the blockade and desist from pretending to maintain it ? For the ...
... able to catch the blockade breaker and re- assert the effectiveness of the block- ade ? Until that reassertion occurs , must not the blockader admit the inaffectiveness of the blockade and desist from pretending to maintain it ? For the ...
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Página 246 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 2 - We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks; we will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many; we will revere and obey the city's laws and do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in...
Página 321 - A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined ; to which end a uniform and...
Página 389 - China. 3 They are accordingly firmly resolved reciprocally to respect the territorial possessions belonging to each other in said region. 4 They are also determined to preserve the common interests of all powers in China by supporting by all pacific means at their disposal the independence and integrity of China and the principle of equal opportunity for commerce and industry of all nations in that Empire.
Página 572 - Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense...
Página 113 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 321 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Página 250 - A neutral Power may allow prizes to enter its ports and roadsteads, whether under convoy or not, when they are brought there to be sequestrated pending the decision of a prize court. It may have the prize taken to another of its ports. If the prize is convoyed by a war-ship, the prize crew may go on board the convoying ship. If the prize is not under convoy, the prize crew are left at liberty.
Página 66 - In accordance with the general principles of visit and search and destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law, such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives, unless these ships attempt to escape or offer resistance.
Página 573 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.