President Wilson's State Papers and AddressesG.H. Doran Company, 1918 - 484 páginas |
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President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) Visualização integral - 1918 |
President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) Visualização integral - 1918 |
President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) Visualização integral - 1918 |
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Página 233 - The Declaration of Paris in 1856, which has been universally recognized as correctly stating the rule of international law as to blockade, expressly declares that "blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective; that is to say, maintained by force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of
Página 379 - One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues
Página 32 - States. The future, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be very different for this hemisphere from the past. These States lying to the south of us, which have always been our neighbors, will now be drawn closer to us by innumerable ties, and, I hope, chief of all, by the tie of a common
Página 414 - the goal of German policy as rather the dream of minds detached from practical affairs, as preposterous private conceptions of German destiny, than as the actual plans of responsible rulers; but the rulers of Germany themselves knew all the while what concrete plans, what well advanced intrigues lay back of what the professors and the writers
Página 349 - possible to make peace. I spoke on behalf of humanity and of the rights of all neutral nations like our own, many of whose most vital interests the war puts in constant jeopardy. The Central Powers united in a reply which stated
Página 274 - a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. Like other nations, we have ourselves no doubt once and again offended against that principle when for a little while controlled by selfish passion, as our franker historians have been honorable enough to admit; but it has become more and more
Página 455 - directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial and Royal AustroHungarian Government, and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States. And, whereas, It is provided by Section 1 of the act approved