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R. H. Ewell, the first speaker for the negative said: We agree with the affirmative that the creditor nation should have justice. But by seizing land they would not be carrying out the award of a Hague tribunal for a money payment. Our first objection to the proposition of the...
In the second place we are opposed to the proposition of the affirmative because it is a radical departure from our policy of the past three quarters of a century. The strength of the Monroe Doctrine lies in the fact that we have allowed no exception, no opening wedge. There...
C. D. Lockwood closed the speeches for the negative. When we assented to the Hague tribunal, he said, we did so with the reservation that we should not be obliged to sacrifice the Monroe Doctrine. The essential meaning of that doctrine is that no European power shall be allowed to...
The defaulted claim might be satisfied by ways other than seizure of land. It might be satisfied by seizing ships in reprisal as, in 1862-3, England seized Brazilian ships to satisfy an unpaid claim. Another way to enforce the money award is suggested by the question itself. By the...
Fox, in opening the rebuttal for the negative, said that we have interfered in the past. Would any nation risk a war to collect a few paltry dollars which it could collect in many other ways? In replay to the isolation of the territory seized, we say that not only...