Ideas and Diplomacy: Readings in the Intellectual Tradition of American Foreign PolicyNorman A. Graebner |
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... demand , he added that he considered the demand as exorbitant , and had told the First Consul that the thing was impossible ; that we had not the means of raising that . The Consul told him that we might borrow it . I now plainly saw ...
... demand , he added that he considered the demand as exorbitant , and had told the First Consul that the thing was impossible ; that we had not the means of raising that . The Consul told him that we might borrow it . I now plainly saw ...
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... demand was meaningless in the context of diplomacy mattered little . It carried the desired political appeal and thus forced the issue of Oregon into the Democratic platform of 1844 . Whig conservatives , led by such men as Robert ...
... demand was meaningless in the context of diplomacy mattered little . It carried the desired political appeal and thus forced the issue of Oregon into the Democratic platform of 1844 . Whig conservatives , led by such men as Robert ...
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... demand the exclusive sovereignty over the whole territory in dispute , and thus to render war almost inevitable . In the present enlightened and Christian age , war ought to be the very last alternative of nations , and should never be ...
... demand the exclusive sovereignty over the whole territory in dispute , and thus to render war almost inevitable . In the present enlightened and Christian age , war ought to be the very last alternative of nations , and should never be ...
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can Continent 1760 | 18 |
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John Adams at the Court of St Jamess June 1785 | 33 |
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