...dispose of the person and property of a neighbor. It was bad enough when Secretary Olney declared, "The United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. "f Under circumstances so discreditable to ourselves, it ought to be the duty of every good citizen...

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

...(2) The United States possesses the hegemony of America. "To-day the United States is practically the sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon...subjects to which it confines its interposition." (3) The Monroe Doctrine is a part of international law, known to all nations, and hence to disregard...

...arbitrate the question, and announced that the United States was master in this hemisphere by saying : "The United States is practically sovereign on this...continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to wHTcha it rconEnes Its^mlerpos1tion! It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for...

...gemacht !) und seinen prägmantesten Ausdruck wohl in dem Satz des Staatssekretärs OLNEY gefunden hat: „To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the snbjects to which it confines its interposition" b). Immerhin fehlt in diesem Fall nicht die besondere...

...the United States as something very different from "a friend and ally." Mr. Oiney's statement that "The United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subject to which it confines its interposition," was received with anything but cordiality by the LatinAmerican...

...national life on the part of Powers with whom they had long maintained the most harmonious relations Today the United States is practically sovereign on...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why ? . . . It is because, in addition to all other grounds, its infinite resources combined with its...

...national life on the part of Powers with whom they had long maintained the most harmonious relations Today the United States is practically sovereign on...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why ? . . . It is because, in addition to all other grounds, its infinite resources combined with its...

...the ultimate extinction of European colonial possessions, he announced with reference to the present, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Great Britain, he declared, could not be considered as a South American power; if she advanced her...

...settle the interior affairs of America itself. This was the occasion of Secretary Olney's famous dictum, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Later developments would seem to be in harmony with the principle thus laid down by President Cleveland,...