Diplomatic Action Quotes
Turkey had massacred many Armenians. The British government protested strongly and made their views known to the Turks. The result was resentment by Turkey, who regarded the matter as a purely internal affair, and the curtailment of British economic interests in the area.
Madison’s view is at odds with International Law.
Ataturk advocated a very strong military establishment that should rarely if ever be used—always preferring a diplomatic, political solution to foreign policy problems.
In the Chinese Civil War, the Communist forces under Chairman Mao had ousted the Kuomintang forces from the mainland. Most of the Kuomintang army retreated to Formosa and established Nationalist China. But an entire Kuomintang army moved into Burma without any consent of the Burmese. In effect, they had invaded. The Kuomintang army was stronger than the entire Burmese army and in effect controlled whatever part of the country they wished to. Further, they were growing opium poppies and were deep in the illegal international drug trade. Burma asked the UN to pressure Chaing Kai Chek and the nationalists on Formosa to transport the army out of Burma and to Formosa. However, the American conservatives were staunch allies of the Nationalists and blocked any efforts to pressure them to do anything which they did not wish to do. So the US official policy was that the Nationalist troops should be withdrawn but there was little pressure behind the policy. Thein, observed that solution could be easy of the United States so wished it. Finally, the troops were withdrawn and Burma was free.
The Navy and the foreign office had to find the argument to support the action; it was anxious work.
Early in the first world war, the British "extended" the traditional legal concept of a blockade:
At the time there were UN sanctions against Iran for violating the Non Proliferation Treaty regarding transparency of its nuclear development.
Wilson did not threaten Germany when they invaded Belgium in WWI. TR thought Wilson “soft”. He entered the war 3 years later only after the Germans had torpedoed two American passenger liners. The Germans were hoping to keep America out of the war. TR would have threatened Germany at the beginning, and if they did not withdraw from Belgium, he would have sent American troops. Wilson was not sure public opinion would support American entry into the war, even after our first ship was sunk by German U-boats. It took two. Roosevelt, as he said in the letter, the American people would have followed him. He was probably right as his public popularity was very high and he had remarkable leadership skills. He did not assess public opinion. He made public opinion. Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are probably the only 3 American Presidents who had the trust and leadership ability to lead the country into a major war where we were not attacked first without lying as to the circumstances and the danger. President Clinton honestly led the country into the Balkan war, but it was to be an air war only with no soldiers fighting on the ground. It was a significant war that we won and did not lose a single fighter.
The Resolution to which he referred was Security Council Resolution 181 which Internationalized Jerusalem. The Israeli’s had wanted it for their capital. The Arabs wanted it. Christians had claims on parts of it. So the UN declared it an International City. The Israelis grudgingly accepted the resolution, but the Arab Armies attacked the new state of Israel. They were repulsed from most of Israel but they did take Jerusalem. The UN chose not to implement its own resolution and the Arabs controlled Jerusalem thereafter until they again tried to invade Israel again. This time they lost badly and the Israelis took Jerusalem and established it as their capital and Jews could pray in Jerusalem for the first time since 1948. Unlike the Arabs who kept the Israelis and other Jews out of the city when they controlled it, the Israelis turned over control of the Islamic holy places to Muslims and allowed Muslims access to them. The status of Jerusalem was still contested in the early 21st century.
