...I take my text from a great Republican Secretary of State, Elihu Root, who said: 'We consider that the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations deserve as much respect as those of the great empires. We pretend to no right, privilege or power that...

...profession of faith setting forth the policy of the United States in the following memorable declarations : We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no...over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal right of the smallest and weakest member of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those...

...interests, with less international complications, to assure the happiness of the peoples. Together, also, we wish for no victories but those of peace; for no...sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. It is our desire in the affairs of the world to maintain mutual respect and just consideration for...

...la famille des nations comme ayant le même titre à notre respect que ceux du plus grand empire". ,,We deem the independence and equal rights of the...smallest and weakest member of the family of nations as entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empira". Ces paroles ont résonné partout...

...memorable words he outlined a complete program of Pan-American international concord: "We wish," said he, "for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except our own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignly over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest memher...

...la famille des nations comme ayant le même titre à notre respect que ceux du plus grand empire". ,,We deem the independence and equal rights of the...smallest and weakest member of the family of nations as entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire!" . Ces paroles ont résonné partout...

...States ; that it exercised a benevolent guardianship and did not spell aggression. Mr. Root said : " We wish for no victories but those of peace ; for no territory except our own ; no sovereignty except the sovereignty over ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of...

...advance.2 And in speaking of the just ambition of his country, he said in the same remarkable address : We wish for no victories but those of peace; for no territory except ovir own; for no sovereignty except the sovereignty ove'r ourselves. \V;.% deem the independence and...

...us will be proud of him as a man : " We," he declared in the name of the United States of America, " wish for no victories but those of peace, for no territory...our own, for no sovereignty except the sovereignty of ourselves. We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest member of the family...

...Secretary Root already mentioned. In his speech at Rio Janeiro he declared, with equal tact and emphasis: "We deem the independence and equal rights of the smallest and weakest members of the family of nations entitled to as much respect as those of the greatest empire, and we...