The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Volumes 35-36The Society, 1919 |
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Page 100 - Russia, Mongolia, China, being some record of the relations between them from the beginning of the XVIIth century to the death of the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich AD 1602-1676, rendered mainly in the form of narratives dictated or written by the envoys sent by the Russian Tsars, or their voevodas in Siberia to the Kalmuk and Mongol Khans & Princes; and to the Emperors of China...
Page 20 - Our object is not territory, but trade ; a great commercial emporium, and a, fulcrum, whence we may extend our influence politically as circumstances may hereafter require.
Page 6 - That the Sultan receive and provide a suitable residence for a British Officer to be called Resident, who shall be accredited to his Court, and whose advice must be asked and acted upon on all questions other than those touching Malay Religion and Custom.
Page 53 - Of course, Portugal was our oldest ally, and our relations were very friendly ; but, though she neither controlled nor traded with the interior, she claimed the political right to block the estuary against us, and we admitted the political right so far as to consent to her imposing duties — which, in theory, might have been prohibitive of all trade. The Zambesi is specially interesting because it was concerned with one of the first of those land-corridors, about which there has been so much discussion...
Page 111 - Baldwin's African Hunting. African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c., from 1852 to 1860. By WILLIAM CHARLES BALDWIN, F.RG.S.
Page 54 - Rumanians and the JugoSlavs, who together form a minority of the total population. For the transfer of Arad to Rumania and of the Burgenland to Austria more is to be said, but the position as a whole is one of unstable equilibrium, and can only be maintained by support from without. In this part of Europe at least a League of Nations will not have to seek for its troubles. When we turn to Austria we are confronted with the great tragedy in the reconstruction of Europe. Of that country it. could once...
Page 59 - To build up out of elements in many respects so diverse a common nationality without destroying what is best in each will be a long and laborious task. Economic conditions are not likely to be of much assistance. It is true that they are fairly uniform throughout Jugo-Slavia, and it is improbable that the economic interests of different regions will conflict to any great extent. On the other hand, since each region is more or less selfsupporting, they will naturally unite into an economic whole less...
Page 6 - That the collection and control of all revenues and the general administration of the Country be regulated under the advice of these Residents.
Page 54 - It was, therefore, part of her scheme to press — what was accepted by the conference — that the Congo should be open to all flags for all commercial purposes, and that no riparian rights should be recognised. It was equally to her interest that the International Committee of Administration agreed upon should never be set up, and it never has been; and, of course, in 1911 she used the trouble which she had provoked in Morocco to acquire 100,000 square miles of the French Congo, so that she became...