...rendered any European control over "an American state unnatural and inexpedient." "Today," Olney insisted, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Olney asked that London reply to the dispatch before the President's annual message to Congress on...

...Doctrine was a reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine. Secretary of State Olney announced in 1895 tnat "today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition," in Walter LeFeber, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, vol. 2, The American Search...

...to intervene. Asserting an American protectorate over the entire hemisphere, Olney famously went on, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Olney explained that American influence was so strong "because in addition to all other grounds, its...

...of the situation and practically invulnerable as against any or all powers." Because of this power, "today the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."19 After delivering the note as instructed, Ambassador Bayard reported that Salisbury...

...however, with the more mundane matter of the Orinoco River. First, however, he wrote the famous phrase: Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fíat is law upon the subjects to which it confínes its interposition. Why? It is not because of the...

...example, in 1895 President Cleveland's secretary of state, Richard Olney, stated quite forthrightly: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition."1 As a result of its easy victory over Spain in 1898, the United States quickly came...

...Venezuelan border affair: "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent [hemisphere] and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition." Both the success of the United States and its proximity to Latin America made it so. 51 In the years...

...Secretary of State Richard OIney wrote to Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, that "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." This pronundamento naturally angered Canada and all the states of Latin America, and Lord Salisbury...

...of State Richard Olney proclaimed his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, declaring in unsubtle terms that "today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Olney affirmed this statement during a controversy with Great Britain over a disputed territory between...

...forthcoming. It is in this light that one can understand Richard Olney's boastful declaration that "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition," words that sound only too much like the bragging of an insecure adolescent uncertain of his position...