Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950Carl G. Brandt, Edward Merl Shafter Essay precedes each speech. |
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... Monroe , and John Quincy Adams , bringing the Monroe doctrine to complete and round out the principles of Washington to which they were all alike devoted . If we are to be driven by modern exigencies to dismiss Washington and his ...
... Monroe , and John Quincy Adams , bringing the Monroe doctrine to complete and round out the principles of Washington to which they were all alike devoted . If we are to be driven by modern exigencies to dismiss Washington and his ...
Page 363
... Monroe doctrine stopped the incursions of England upon the territory of Venezuela and settled the boundary question finally by arbitration . Under the Monroe doctrine we arrested the attempt of Germany to take Venezuelan territory on ...
... Monroe doctrine stopped the incursions of England upon the territory of Venezuela and settled the boundary question finally by arbitration . Under the Monroe doctrine we arrested the attempt of Germany to take Venezuelan territory on ...
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... Monroe doctrine . I think that , in so far as language could protect the Monroe doc- trine , it has been protected . But as a practical proposition , as a working proposition , tell me candidly , as men familiar with the history of your ...
... Monroe doctrine . I think that , in so far as language could protect the Monroe doc- trine , it has been protected . But as a practical proposition , as a working proposition , tell me candidly , as men familiar with the history of your ...
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