Naval Administration And Warfare : Some General Principles, With Other Essays
The book Naval Administration And Warfare : Some General Principles, With Other Essays was written by author Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 Here you can read free online of Naval Administration And Warfare : Some General Principles, With Other Essays book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Naval Administration And Warfare : Some General Principles, With Other Essays a good or bad book?
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Whether a retort or a menace, even so overt a measure, in home waters, gave rise to no further known diplomatic action. We Ameri- cans are attributing to other people a thinness of skin, suggestive of an over-sensitiveness in ourselves which it was hoped we had outgrown. Let it be said at once, definitely and definitively, that there is in international law, or in inter- national comity, absolutely no ground of offence to any state, should another state, neighbor or remote, see fit to move its ...navy about its own coasts in such manner as it pleases. Whatever Germany may think of the new distribution of the British navy, she says nothing, but will silently govern her own measures accordingly. The statesmen of Japan, who understand perfectly 312 Naval Administration and Warfare the proprieties of international relations, know this well, and doubtless retain their composure; but the result of the action of certain of the Amer- ican press has been to stir up popular feeling in both countries, by the imputation to the United States government of motives and purposes which cannot be known, and which prima facte are less probable than the object officially avowed.
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