John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White
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John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White
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Abstract
At the time when the Government of the United States was informed by that of Germany that it had leased from His Majesty the Emperor of China the port of Kiao-chao and the adjacent territory in the province of Shantung, assurances were given to the ambassador of the United States at Berlin by the Imperial German minister for foreign affairs that the rights and privileges insured by treaties with China to citizens of the United States would not thereby suffer or be in anywise impaired within the area over which Germany had thus obtained control.
Contents
- New Imperialism
- Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith
- Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands
- Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun”
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: “Current Fallacies upon Naval Subjects”
- William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
- William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
- John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White
- William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States
- Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism
- Mary Kingsley: West African Studies
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”
- Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science
- Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”
- Boxer Protocol
- D’Arcy Concession
- Ernest Crosby: “The Real White Man's Burden”
- Panama Canal Treaty
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
- George Orwell: Burmese Days
- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
- John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis
- Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly