Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...asserted that the Boers were independent except for the articles which had been stipulated in the London convention of 1884. However, in 1897, Secretary Chamberlain revived the claim of suzerainty. The Volksraad then met and acquiesced to all of England's demands, provided she would in some way protect her from the harsh conditions of the London convention. The Boers suggested that the suzerainty be dropped. England did not listen to her demands, but requested Kruger to yield unconditionally. Kruger refused and war resulted...
...British subjects received unfair treatment. These two facts gave England the right to interfere. Even setting aside the special justification of England's claim, there still remains the broader, the firmer, the higher ground of the supreme law of mankind, the inalienable right of any international state to protect its citizens from injustice in a foreign land...
Morse, who made the final rebuttal speech of the evening, summed up the preceding speeches of both sides. The claim that the condition of affairs in the Transvaal was intolerable, stood untouched by the negative. International law gave England the right to interfere for the protection of her subjects and even of the natives--a right promised by the Boers in the negotiations regarding the conventions. But conventions aside, England had the general right to protect her citizens, and Princeton did not deny this. The South African troubles had to be faced by England, but, in facing them...
Manila Bay is a fine harbor, its only fault being that the entrance is too wide to protect vessels from the typhoons. To remedy this the Spanish government began the construction of a break water, but through mismanagement of funds little had been accomplished. The climate is by no means so bad as is imagined. fifteen or twenty years of American rule should make Manila the greatest city of the East...
...Rosenthal '98, the last Harvard speaker, took up and carefully considered the evils threatening our republican institutions from the present influx of ignorant and vicious foreigners. It is more important, said he, that we should protect these institutions than that we should seek to benefit the ill-conditioned and unfortunate people of Europe. Whereas, for the first fifty or sixty years after the adoption of the Constitution, our population was augmented almost entirely by people who had had experience in self-government, today the additions come from countries where the people are degraded and the democratic idea hardly exists...