We have no desire for offensive armament.

The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic representatives of the United States

All letters addressed in the care of a consular office should be held at the disposal of the addressees for the period prescribed by the laws of the country in which the consular office is situated.

There is absolutely no foundation for the stories circulated in the press to the effect that this Government is considering plans for or discussions concerning South American debts.

Those negotiations, of course, we are hopeful will go forward but are not negotiations in which we have any direct interest at all, and which we could not be a party to otherwise than perhaps just friendly suggestions.

Diplomatic visas will be granted by diplomatic missions only.

The convention and protocol had my approval and were signed by the American minister at Ottawa by virtue of full powers issued to him by me.

Of course, our country would consider any suggestion that the responsible authorities of the British Government wanted to submit to us.

Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the presence of our military forces, nevertheless it is the settled policy of our Government to deal with other nations not on the basis of force and compulsion, but on the basis of understanding and good will.

I think it probably wise to look with more or less suspicion on reports concerning the attitude of this Government toward China and its representatives in China which originate out of our country.

Toward the governments of countries which we have recognized this side of the Panama Canal we feel a moral responsibility that does not attach to other nations.

Our Government has usually been too remiss, rather than too active, in supporting the lawful rights of its citizens abroad.

No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor.

The best security to the Philippine Islands is the protection of and by the United States.

I think we have sufficient forces there for rescue purposes and to do everything that could be done in that direction.

Of course, it is difficult to say, but so far as we can foresee it would appear that we now have sufficient forces in China to take care of such Americans there as need to be cared for.

We have some peculiar interests in Nicaragua, on account of our right to build a canal there and establish a naval station.

So I understand the 5th reservation is merely for the purpose of putting the United States in the same position as other countries.