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- Source :
- New Republic; 12/12/23, Vol. 37 Issue 471, p1-5, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 1923
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Abstract
- Presents information on the political conditions in the world with emphasis on the U.S. Explanation by the U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes about the changes that have occurred with time in the original Monroe Doctrine, named after U.S. President James Monroe, on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the proclamation of the Doctrine; View that the U.S. has emerged as the most dominant force, both politically and economically, in the hundred years after the proclamation of the Doctrine; Reasons for the resentment of the other American nations over the increasing disposition of the U.S. government to rule the American hemisphere; View that the Monroe Doctrine is no more a Pan-American mutual policy; Criticism of Hughes regarding his delineation of the relationship between the United States and Europe; View that the promise made by French government in lieu of abandonment of passive resistance in Ruhr, Germany is false and that France is not interested in having Germany to pay reparation, instead it only wants to destroy Germany; Possibility of dissolution of the legislative assembly of Germany; Charge that the Allies has worked directly against the interest of German democracy; Opposition of the of proposed tax reduction by Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Andrew William Mellon; Move in the U.S. Congress for a constitutional amendment prohibiting the issue of tax exempt securities and account of the implications thereof; Means to meet out the manpower shortage in the farms in the Southern part of the U.S.; Appreciation of Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth College, Hanover, North Hampshire, for preserving the principles of free speech and freedom of thought; Criticism of the law passed in Arkansas, which orders that history of the U.S. shall be taught in the primary grades; Doubt over the role of U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge in remitting the sixty-day jail sentence imposed on Comptroller of New York City Charles L. Craig.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 471
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15214897