Europe Since 1815

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H. Holt, 1910 - Europe - 830 pages
 

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Page 693 - Japan came in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, and proved the solidity of this amazing achievement.
Page 128 - It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Page 698 - The governments of Great Britain and Japan, actuated solely by a desire to maintain the status quo and general peace in the extreme East, being moreover specially interested in maintaining the independence and territorial integrity of the Empire of China and the Empire of Korea, and in securing equal opportunities in those countries for the commerce and industry of all nations...
Page 508 - England, as the predominant member of the partnership of the three kingdoms, will have to be convinced of its justice.
Page 730 - Power shall select four persons at the most, of known competency in questions of international law, of the highest moral reputation, and disposed to accept the duties of Arbitrators.
Page 540 - The spectacle of thousands of British subjects kept permanently in the position of helots,* constantly chafing under undoubted grievances, and calling vainly to Her Majesty's Government for redress, does steadily undermine the influence and reputation of Great Britain and the respect for the British Government within the Queen's dominions.
Page 65 - Pitt called in the New World to redress the balance of the Old.
Page 485 - Empire shall not be destroyed, and in my opinion no minister in this country will do his duty who neglects any opportunity of reconstructing as much as possible our Colonial Empire, and of responding to those distant sympathies which may become the source of incalculable strength and happiness to this land.

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