 | Noam Chomsky - Political Science - 1993 - 340 pages
...the country," in the words of the commanding officer. Stevens informed the Secretary of State that "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Long before, John Quincy Adams had used the same imagery with regard to the second of "the places of... | |
 | Noel J. Kent - History - 1993 - 252 pages
...Minister Stevens, gloating over the success of the operation, wrote home to the secretary of state: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it."" During the months that followed, a period in which annexation negotiations were held in Washington... | |
 | Linda S. Parker - Social Science - 1996 - 276 pages
...that he declared an American protectorate over Hawai'i, Stevens wrote to the secretary of state that "the Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it."74 Congress delayed action on the annexation treaty until President-elect Grover Cleveland took... | |
 | Richard Drinnon - Social Science - 1997 - 614 pages
...view given concurrent visual form in this cartoon — the US minister to Hawaii pronounced it finally "fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." A succession of golden hours seemingly struck when Hay joined McKinley's administration, though Canada... | |
 | Richard H. Immerman - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...Stevens and Marines from the USS Boston proved decisive in the revolution's success in January 1893. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it," Stevens wrote.* Harrison wholeheartedly agreed, and negotiations for a treaty of annexation fell to... | |
 | Edward P. Crapol - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 188 pages
...submitted it to the Senate for approval. At the time, Stevens enthusiastically wrote the State Department: "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." The incoming president, Democrat Grover Cleveland, who had defeated Harrison in the 1892 election,... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - History - 1986 - 484 pages
...Washington to negotiate annexation. The Harrison administration readily agreed with its minister that “the Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...golden hour for the United States to pluck it,” and a treaty of annexation (providing annuities to the deposed queen and hen heir) was signed on February... | |
 | Howard Jones - History - 2002 - 334 pages
...flag, and declared the islands a protectorate of the United States. To the state department he wrote, "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is...the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." The provisional government in Hawaii sent a commission to Washington to draft an annexation treaty,... | |
 | H.W. Brands - History - 2002 - 383 pages
...Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe," he declared, importing a fruit never seen in that part of the Pacific, "and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it." Expansionists in the United States thrilled at the thought. AngloSaxonists embraced the opportunity... | |
 | Alton Pryor - Hawaii - 2004 - 182 pages
...of Hawaii. John L. Stevens, American Minister to Hawaii, in 1893 tried to prod the US into action. "The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour to pluck it," Stevens wrote. The Democrats were generally opposed to annexation, while the Republicans... | |
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The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to pluck it. 
