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...Tercentenary Theater in front of a public audience, he never could have anticipated the storm of controversy that has been raging over the pre-released title of one of his student’s speeches. An etymology and lexicography double major studying at Harvard for the summer, Daniel Webster was very excited to deliver his speech entitled “Eliminating the Capital H: My American Holocaust...
...fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Ever since, Webster's dictum has been regarded as a principle of international...
...paper. That's wise. International law, to be sure, is often honored mainly in the breach. But sometimes it makes sense to set out plainly--and not just in a speech at West Point--the circumstances in which one nation feels entitled to take up arms against another. Daniel Webster understood that more than 160 years ago. George W. Bush could do worse than to emulate him today...
...fire and then cast it adrift just above Niagara Falls. The British government said its forces had acted in self-defense; those on the Caroline, London claimed, were supporters of a rebellion against British rule in Canada. In an exchange of diplomatic notes, U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster argued that a nation could only justify such pre-emptive hostile action if there was a necessity "instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation." Ever since, Webster's dictum has been regarded as a principle of international...
...paper. That's wise. International law, to be sure, is often honored mainly in the breach. But sometimes it makes sense to set out plainly - and not just in a speech at West Point - the circumstances in which one nation feels entitled to take up arms against another. Daniel Webster understood that more than 160 years ago. George W. Bush could do worse than to emulate him today...