...question and boldly announced that the United States was master in the Western Hemisphere, saying: The United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason...

..."political control to be lost by one party and gained by the other." "To-day," declared Mr. Olney, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." All the advantages of this superiority were, he affirmed, at once imperilled if the principle should...

...President Wilson's restatements of the doctrine supersede Secretary Olney's extreme declaration that the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat law, but there are senators, politicians and editors who still claim that the right to do whatsoever...

...and inexpedient" ; that the interests "of Europe are irreconcilably diverse from those of America" ; that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition" ; that it is "master of the situation." These weighty declarations were further asserted to be at once...

...Civilization must either advance or retrograde accordingly as its supremacy is extended or curtailed. . . . "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized state, nor because wisdom and...

...Magazine of The New York Times whether such sequestration has occurred or is now going on." He affirmed: " Today the United States is practically sovereign on...subjects to which it confines its interposition." He closed with the statement that it was the " unmistakable and imperative duty of the President to...

...governmental constitutions, are friends and allies, commercially and politically, of the United States. . . . To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. . . . There is, then, a doctrine of American public law, well founded in principle and abundantly sanctioned...

...because it is good for us. No American statesman will ever again inform Europe, as Mr. Olney did, that " The United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." THE WORLD'S BELIEF IN FORCE The conditions of the world call for modesty, foresight, and preparation...

...The people of the United States have vital interest in the cause of popular self-government. . . . " To-day the United States is practically sovereign...fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines Sover its interposition. Why? It is not because of the eigntyof pure friendship or good will felt for...

...placed the capstone upon the edifice of National policy by directingRichard Olney to notify the world that "today the United States is practically sovereign...this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects upon which it confines its interposition." Here, then, succinctly stated, is the great basic principle...