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...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 affirmative is that it is too broad and sweeping. Its conditions could never exist by themselves. There would inevitably be other conditions, and as these other conditions vary, the case outlined in the resolution will very in most important particulars. This resolution of the affirmative denies that the United States...
...United States should take the normal position of non-intervention, for a nation can not interfere between two others except for the most weighty reasons. In the present case, any intervention would be a peculiarly serious move, because it would be a challenge to the principle of arbitration. The policy of the United States has been to support international arbitration and she has been the foremost in having disputes adjusted in a peaceful method...
...would mean nullification of the award of the Hague tribunal. Not only, then, will our policy do justice to European countries, but also will it teach South American states invaluable lessons, and support the great principles of arbitration; it will give to the United States a position unique among nations; it will show European nations that there is one nation above the selfish desires of the old world...
...years the history of Europe has been a history of wars and quarrels between neighboring states. The United States, on the other hand, protected from all dangerous neighbors by 3000 miles of ocean, has been free to devote all its energy to making of itself the greatest industrial nation of the world. The resolution of the a affirmative means that the United States shall give up its priceless isolation and allow Europe not only coaling stations but great bases of operation from which may be attacked our mainland, Porto Rico and the Panama Canal. It means too that we shall...
...affirmative have no desire to abandon the Monroe doctrine; we simply say that when it works injustice it ought to yield. The negative has maintained that the retention of this small section of South American territory would be dangerous to the United States. Ever since its birth as a nation the United States has been surrounded cast, south and north, by the American possessions of European powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland. He has realized that there could be none. Venezuela...