Upon several disputable and delicate questions the Government of the United States has not hesitated to express definite views; and they are not always views which the Government of our own country would be prepared to endorse.
Holland notes the differing views of the United States and the UK on certain international law issues.
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Great Britain, for one, has no desire for an acre of new territory on the American continent.
Without war the world would stagnate, and lose itself in materialism.
Pacific reprisals should also, according to the tendency of modern opinion and practice, be so applied as not to interfere with the interests of third Powers and their subjects.
States differ so widely in offensive power and vulnerability that it would be hardly advisable thus to fetter the liberty of action of a State which considers itself to have been injured.
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