Author: Patrick GallagherPublisher:
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Category : Eastern question (Far East).
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations
Author: Patrick GallagherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Far East).
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations
Author: Patrick GallagherPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355169260
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Languages : en
Pages : 536
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America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations (Classic Reprint)
Author: Patrick GallagherPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484321266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Excerpt from America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations Our position on the globe has cast us for the most important part in the meeting of East and West. Admitting all the errors that may be charged against us, our record sustains our geographical right to play that part, and it justifies the hope that, ultimately, we may play it well. We have neither selfish interest to serve nor any desire to arouse suspicion in Asia, either among any of the Asiatic peoples themselves or among European peoples whose presence and objects in Asia con form to the necessities and favorably react to the tests of mod ern civilization. Such being the case, there is every reason to expect that American intelligence will survive the shocks of selfish and in temperate special pleading, however and wherever originating. Our friends - and they are universal - will assist us to over come the wiles of those who would divorce from us the spouse of our national soul, the grateful spirit of Asia. All the Asiatic peoples are our friends. To the Japanese, the Chinese, and the Filipinos we have extended a generous, friendly, helping hand, and one cannot go all the way with all one's friends unless each friend is willing to go all the way with the others. Friendship requires honorable concessions based upon justice and prudence. Life in its simplest form is a complex thing. No man among the billions who have lived has succeeded in understanding himself. How much more difficult it is to understand others! And nations being man multiplied, sometimes by many mil lions, how vastly more difficult it must be to weigh and measure their varying and contradictory moods and tenses! How dan gerons to attempt snap judgments even with the aid of an unbiased mind! The problems of Asia reach down to the roots, ascend to the highest and most remote branches, and touch the tenderest fibers of our physical, our political, and our spiritual life. There is no species of knowledge or speculation that has not its root in the aged soil of Asia. From our belief in God to our facility in the manufacture and the employment of gunpowder, Asia has been the world's teacher. In the num bers of her people, their ingenuity, and their matchless indus try, prudence will recognize a huge force that justice may utilize and injustice dare not, and cannot, destroy. There fore are we fortunate in our unreserved, impartial Asiatic friendships, and thus comes the strongest impulse to conserve our Asiatic good-will, remembering always that neither indi vidual man nor race among men can know the goal or the road marked out for us by the Maker of all the continents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations
Author: Patrick GallagherPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330292815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Excerpt from America's Aims and Asia's Aspirations He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln. Men today are blessed with a new curiosity about their governments. Everywhere, they are demanding that the doors behind which secret policies have been incubated be thrown open and kept open henceforth. The doors that do not respond to the keys the people hold will be battered down. - Woodrow Wilson. Secret negotiations, a piece of business privately carried to completion and made public only when finished, suited well with the President's temper and way of action. A man naturally secretive, naturally fond, not of concealments, but of quiet and subtile management, not insincere, but indirect in his ways of approach, he relished statecraft of this sort, and no doubt liked the ... business all the better because it seemed to demand, in its very nature, a delicate and private handling. The Senate rejected the treaty by the very decisive vote of 16 to 35, men of both parties alike deeply irritated that the President should spring this weighty matter upon the country in such a fashion, taking no counsel beforehand, save such as he chose to take. - Woodrow Wilson's criticism of President Tyler's secret diplomacy in the negotiation of the Texas annexation treaty (1844), from "A History of the American People," Vol. IV, p. 102. If I could but tear off their masks, expose these people naked to the world, tell what impulses brought each one here; reveal the inner truth, the awakening desires, the intrigue, the low greed, the sterility of their minds, the poverty of their hearts! Ah! - Georges Clemenceau in "The Strongest." These were the results of the only organized method that civilized nations have ever attempted or established to settle disputes among each other ... Surely it is time that a saner plan for settling disputes between peoples should be established ... If we attempt it, the attempt will be a success. - David Lloyd-George, seconding the motion to establish a League of Nations, Paris, January 25, 1919. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Chinese Students' Monthly
Author: The Far-Eastern review
Author: The Far Eastern Review, Engineering, Finance, Commerce
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
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The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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The United States Catalog Supplement, January 1918-June 1921
Author: Eleanor E. HawkinsPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
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