...sympathy, by similarity of Governmental Constitutions, are friends and allies of the United States.. ..To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition — There is a doctrine of American public law... which... requires the United States to treat as an...

...sympathy, by similarity of Governmental Constitutions, are friends and allies of the United States Today the United States is practically sovereign on...the subjects to which it confines its interposition — There is a doctrine of American public law... which... requires the United States to treat as an...

...strength. This sense of the Monroe Doctrine is that given it by Secretary Olney in 1895 when he said "the United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. " Commercially, this absurd way of talking has been used as a rule for claiming unfair advantage hi...

...republic, too, has cast a larger and larger shadow over this hemisphere, from 1895, when Secretary Olney asserted that " to-day the United States is practically...subjects to which it confines its interposition," down to the revolution of November, 1903, when the province of Panama seceded from Colombia and became,...

...permanent political union between an European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient" ; and that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition:" all these doctrines Mr. Olney believed to be "the accepted public law of this country." This despatch...

...the regard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign...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...

...the regard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign...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...

...Venezuela boundary dispute with Great Britain during Cleveland's administration, Mr. Olney asserted : " To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." F. England prompted the original declaration of the Doctrine, and English statesmen while in office...

...sustained by a resolution which was passed by both houses. In this instance Mr. Olney used the expression: To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. [5] The original declaration of the Monroe Doctrine was prompted by England's wish, when Canning was...

...this President Cleveland took a firm stand on the side of Venezuela, and Secretary Olney declared: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Cleveland plainly hinted at war if the rights of Venezuela were not respected, and Great Britain, after...