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To accomplish that object it has always advocated those rules which would in most cases do away with the right to capture the private property of an enemy on the high seas.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt states that the U.S. has always supported rules to prevent the capture of enemy private property at sea.

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