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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V GERMAN COLONIAL POLICY, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE German ambitions for colonial Empire, however, and her anger at any check to her purposes have been an open book to all who, from their positions official, semi-official, or political, have been brought vis-a-vis of German interests now adventuring here, now there, in the quest for oversea territory. In 1893 the present writer was told by Senor Mariscal, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mexico, that German designs in South America would become a grave international matter, and that the United States would be forced to emphasize the reality of the Monroe Doctrine before many years passed. As events proved Senor Mariscal was right. In the year 1901, at Aiken, in South Carolina, the late W. C. Whitney, former Secretary of the Navy in the Cleveland Administration, said to the author of this book: "You think that Germany has designs on the British position, that she wants and will strike for Great Britain's Colonies as soon as she has a navy? Do not fash yourselves, as the Scotch say. We will be taking Germany on before that time comes. Little as we shall like it, we will have to do your work for you. She isn't cured yet of her designs on South America. She will try it on and try it on, and she will try it on once too often. She wants to challenge the Monroe Doctrine, and she will do it if she thinks she can do it safely, if she thinks the United States will not fight. You saw what happened at Manila. There the British played up in style. Dewey had more than moral support from you there. Well, I tell you that when I was Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, I saw that Germany meant to grab Brazil and Bolivia and Venezuela, and any other portion of South America which was too weak to re...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151290069
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 124
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151290068
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 236 gr


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