Poland in the World of DemocracyLaclede, 1918 - 262 страница |
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... reason why Lithuania joined Poland was to make herself and Poland safe against German propaganda that was car- ried through the agency of the Knights of the Cross . Here is an object lesson both to the Poles and the Lithuanians , and to ...
... reason why Lithuania joined Poland was to make herself and Poland safe against German propaganda that was car- ried through the agency of the Knights of the Cross . Here is an object lesson both to the Poles and the Lithuanians , and to ...
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... reason the manifold internal progress that characterized Poland from her in- ception is all the more worthy of notice . Already in 1347 Casimir the Great , who is not improperly called the Polish Charlemagne , instituted the Statutes of ...
... reason the manifold internal progress that characterized Poland from her in- ception is all the more worthy of notice . Already in 1347 Casimir the Great , who is not improperly called the Polish Charlemagne , instituted the Statutes of ...
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... reason of her downfall , and to speak of the weak points in the Polish government with a nineteenth and twentieth century mind , which has been inured to admiring the elaborated systems of democratic governments . The 24 POLAND IN THE ...
... reason of her downfall , and to speak of the weak points in the Polish government with a nineteenth and twentieth century mind , which has been inured to admiring the elaborated systems of democratic governments . The 24 POLAND IN THE ...
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... reason to try to believe that Prussia's first task after the war would be other than to extirpate the enslaved peoples on her Eastern border . But there is every reason to show that an undefeated German Empire would use every atom of ...
... reason to try to believe that Prussia's first task after the war would be other than to extirpate the enslaved peoples on her Eastern border . But there is every reason to show that an undefeated German Empire would use every atom of ...
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... reasons , justly declined their royal sceptre , and Poland , far from usurping the con- quered country , left it totally to its own rule . Austria lay at the mercy of Sobieski in 1683 , when the Turk besieged Vienna , and Austria had no ...
... reasons , justly declined their royal sceptre , and Poland , far from usurping the con- quered country , left it totally to its own rule . Austria lay at the mercy of Sobieski in 1683 , when the Turk besieged Vienna , and Austria had no ...
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Страница 225 - No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Страница 245 - I would fain believe that I am speaking for the silent mass of mankind everywhere who have as yet had no place or opportunity to speak their real hearts out concerning the death and ruin they see to have come already upon the persons and the homes they hold most dear.
Страница 244 - It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise. To take part in such a service will be the opportunity for which they have sought to prepare themselves by the very principles and purposes of their...
Страница 244 - That service is nothing less than this, to add their authority and their power to the authority and force of other nations to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world.
Страница 237 - ... and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. I take it for granted, for instance, if I may venture upon a single example, that statesmen everywhere are agreed that there should be a united, independent, and autonomous Poland...
Страница 17 - An independent Polish state should be erected, which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Страница 236 - The equality of nations upon which peace must be founded if it is • to last must be an equality of rights; the guarantees exchanged must neither recognize nor imply a difference between big nations and small, between those that are powerful and those that are weak.
Страница 153 - Catharine was the great criminal. She had for eight years oppressed, betrayed, and ravaged Poland — imposed a King on that country — prevented all reformation of the government — fomented divisions among the nobility — and, in one word, created and maintained that anarchy, which she at length used as a pretence for dismemberment. Her vast Empire needed no accession of territory for defence, or, it might have been hoped, even for ambition, yet by her insatiable avidity for new conquest from...