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...applied by any or all of our sister republics, and it is believed that each of them would be benefited by having such principles as a definite part of her foreign policy. We have always welcomed declarations by other American States as to their determination thus to safeguard their independence. We have also been gratified at the acquiescence in these principles by European powers...
...loggerheads with the Chinese Government over the latter's inability to make gold payments in accordance with the Boxer* indemnity. This state of affairs has caused the keenest concern to the other Powers interested in China, as they would have to join France in order to safeguard their protocol rights, or risk losing these rights by adhering to the Chinese Policies Treaty, one of the Washington treaties as yet unratified by France...
...Nothing can replace the use of sound common sense on the part of the subordinate, and if he is not furnished with sufficient information by his leader to absolutely safeguard his own unit or to effectively carry out the plan he must ask for it himself, and, failing in this, he must use every effort of his own to obtain it in order to better execute the general plan, and by so doing aid the efforts of the leader. This is imperative and is believed to be much more in accord- ance with destroyer and fleet doctrine than to blindly...
...than levity. Harvard Hall stands as a constant menace--a fire-trap endangering daily the lives of scores of men. The proper University authorities can respond to the idea of Fire Prevention Week in no better way than by facing the situation frankly and taking the necessary measures to safeguard the lives of those who are constantly using the building...
...reason for these loans is that France has particular interests to safeguard in Balkanized Europe. The loan to Yugo-Slavia not only stimulates the Little Entente, but helps French trade coming from the Near and Middle East. The loan to Poland contained a definite sub rosa military understanding that Poland was to assist France in case of attack by either Russia or Germany; or, in other words, she was to act the part of Belgium in North-Eastern Europe...