[The Path of Empire by Carl Russell Fish]@TWC D-Link bookThe Path of Empire CHAPTER VIII 15/17
If we wanted it--which, of course, we do not--we could have the practical assistance of the British Navy--on the do ut des principle, naturally." On the 25th of May he added: "It is a moment of immense importance, not only for the present, but for all the future.
It is hardly too much to say the interests of civilization are bound up in the direction the relations of England and America are to take in the next few months." Already on the 15th of May, Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, had said to the Birmingham Liberal Unionists: "What is our next duty? It is to establish and to maintain bonds of permanent amity with our kinsmen across the Atlantic.
There is a powerful and a generous nation....
Their laws, their literature, their standpoint upon every question are the same as ours." In Manila Harbor, where Dewey lay with his squadron, these distant forces of European colonial policy were at work.
The presence of representative foreign warships to observe the maintenance of the blockade was a natural and usual naval circumstance.
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