The New International Year BookDodd, Mead and Company, 1912 |
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Page 377 - The preservation of the common interests of all Powers in China by insuring the independence and integrity of the Chinese Empire and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China...
Page 99 - That the provision of the Treaty of Paris pledging the United States to the protection of all rights of property in the islands, and as well the principle of our own Government which prohibits the taking of private property without due process of law...
Page 53 - Differences which may arise of a legal nature or relating to the interpretation of treaties existing between the two Contracting Parties and which it may not have been possible to settle by diplomacy, shall be referred to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of the...
Page 354 - India, was made responsible to the secretary of state for India, a member of the British cabinet in London.
Page 100 - The discouragement of the immoderate desire for wealth ; and the exaltation of man as the end and standard of industrial activity.
Page 20 - WHEREAS it proposes to co-operate with the states in encouraging instruction in agriculture, the trades and industries, and home economics in secondary schools; in preparing teachers for these vocational courses in state colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts; in maintaining instruction in these vocational subjects in state normal schools...
Page 55 - Which affects the admission of aliens into the United States, or the admission of aliens to the educational institutions of the several States...
Page 309 - Louis, where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Confederate cavalry service, and was present at the battles of Wilson's Creek, Lexington, Pea Ridge, and Corinth.
Page 53 - Treaty, and all parties interested therein shall be given convenient opportunity to be heard, and the High Contracting Parties agree to adopt such legislation as may be appropriate and necessary to give the Commission the powers above mentioned...