Mexico and the Caribbean ...Library Reprints, Incorporated, 1920 - 363 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 191 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Σελίδα 70 - The condition upon which any country is entitled to measure the justice due from it to an alien by the justice which it accords to its own citizens is that its system of law and administration shall conform to this general standard. If any country's system of law and administration does not conform to that standard, although the people of the country may be content or compelled to live under it, no other country can be compelled to accept it as furnishing a satisfactory measure of treatment to its...
Σελίδα 192 - Doctrine itself upon which we stand so firmly is an assertion of our right for our own interest to interfere with the action of every other nation in those parts of this hemisphere where others are sovereign and...
Σελίδα 175 - American citizens and foreign states which is mutually advantageous the Government will be willing to aid in every way possible and to make prompt and vigorous representations, and to take every possible step to insure the execution of equitable contracts made in good faith by its citizens in foreign lands.
Σελίδα 70 - Each country is bound to give to the nationals of another country in its territory the benefit of the same laws, the same administration, the same protection and the same redress for injury which it gives to its own citizens, and neither more nor less: provided the protection which the country gives to its own citizens conforms to the established standard of civilization.
Σελίδα 192 - We arrogate to ourselves," he added, "only the right to protect; what we will not permit the great Powers of Europe to do ... we will not permit any American republic to make it necessary for the great Powers of Europe to do.
Σελίδα 256 - Where both forces are found, their barracks are in different parts of the town. As the officers of the gendarmes are only enlisted men in the Marine Corps and the private gendarmes are Haitians, there is naturally little relation between the personnel of the two organizations. The marine who becomes an officer in the gendarmerie finds himself clothed with almost unlimited power in the district where he serves. He is the judge of practically all civil and criminal cases, settling everything from a...
Σελίδα 339 - ... Ricans themselves. Without their cooperation little of this progress could have been made. But the people of the island have eagerly availed themselves of every opportunity offered them for improvement. With patriotic devotion to their Island and with a real aspiration for progress, they have made a quick response to all the changes that were necessary for development. In politics and government, in education, in commerce and industry, in social and moral improvement, they have offered their...
Σελίδα 337 - ... of which were banks. In 1919, there were registered 236 domestic corporations and 150 foreign corporations, 16 of which were banks. In everything that enters into or indicates the life of a people there is to be seen this marvelous change and progress. In the architecture of their homes and hotels, in the number and character of the crowded shops and stores, in the traffic that throngs the busy streets and fine roads, in the voluntary organizations formed for pleasure and for social welfare,...
Σελίδα 192 - Though pronounced in the famous Lansing-Ishii agreement, and hence in quite a separate connection, the implications of this assertion, as between the United States and the Caribbean region, are obvious enough. When one reviews such highly significant utterances by our former Secretaries of State, the most striking thing about them is the fact that they were delivered by representatives of both of the great political parties. This in itself denotes a continuity of thought under successive administrations...