 | Randolph Greenfield Adams - 1924 - Страниц: 540
...States. They frankly and publicly advised the President in 1854 that if Spain would not sell Cuba, "then by every law, human and divine, we shall be...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." M This amazing piece of effrontery would have committed the United States to a foreign policy utterly... | |
 | Albert Frederick Pollard - 1925 - Страниц: 330
...possession of Spain seriously endangers our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union. Should this question be answered in the affirmative,...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power." The Monroe Doctrine—"with the existing col* Rhodes, I. 385-93; EP Powell, Nullification and Secession,... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 1925 - Страниц: 622
...Manifesto." Their recommendation was, in brief, that if Spain refused to sell Cuba to the United States, "by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." The administration was not prepared to go to such lengths. The recommendation was coldly pigeonholed,... | |
 | Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg - 1926 - Страниц: 448
...became notorious as the "Ostend Manifesto" which declared that if Spain would not sell Cuba to the US, "then by every law, human and divine, we shall be...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." This was not a humanitarian gesture in behalf of Cuba. It frankly was a move to "prevent it from being... | |
 | Charles Edward Chapman - 1927 - Страниц: 714
...possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union? Should this question be answered in the affirmative,...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power." Though met with ridicule or denunciation in both Europe and the United States, the Ostend Manifesto... | |
 | 1927 - Страниц: 434
...declares, "After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba . . . and this shall have been refused, . . . then, by every law human and Divine, we shall be justified...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." He did not want a second St. Domingo, as it would bring "the flames ... to our neighboring shores."58... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode - 1928 - Страниц: 466
...United States, that an offer of purchase should be made to Spain, and that, in the event of refusal, "by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified...wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power." It was the old Texas state of mind of 1844; it was to prevail throughout the subsequent Administration... | |
 | Raymond Garfield Gettell - 1928 - Страниц: 652
...peace and the existence of our cherished union." "Then, by every law, human and divine," it concluded, "we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power." The_develoj)TnPnt of th&jslayery controversy in the United States prevented the following out of this... | |
 | Lamar Taney Beman - 1928 - Страниц: 360
...million dollars be made to Spain for Cuba and expressed the opinion that if the offer should be refused, "we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power."37 Following the Spanish-American war our troops occupied Cuba until May 20, 1902. Before we... | |
 | Richard Warner Van Alstyne - 1974 - Страниц: 244
...that, should Cuba become a menace (meaning Africanization), and should Spain still refuse to sell, ' then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be...in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power '. The text of this paper was not intended to be scanned by the public, but, having been carried secretly... | |
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Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then, by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power. 
