Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14586647260)

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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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t thepowerful. The United States has had itsexperience. Once it has called and twice ithas sat in a Pan-American Congress endeav-oring to make Latin-America and our Amer-ica see eye to eye. Neither the eloquence,idealism, enthusiasm and bounce of James G.Blaine, nor the sagacity, shrewdness, andcompelling personal force of Elihu Rootcould prevent all the small lands combiningto thwart the one world power of the West.Yet in the Western Hemisphere the UnitedStates has 80 per cent, of the w^hite popula-tion, 63 per cent, of the total population andof wealth, military power and material re-source 90 per cent. Even this leaves it pow-erless in a Pan-American Congress. Untilthe world is as homogeneous as the UnitedStates the governance of the world must restwith the few great. The Perennial Hope of Peace The big three at the Con<2;rcss of West-phalia talked from start to finish of lastingpeace and believed they had closed a genera-tion of war with continuing concord. Every C uxiP-i C -ti
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THE CONGRESS OF NATIONS, PAST AND PRESENT 49 Congress has met with this desire and endedwith this hope. Thus also the Congress ofUtrecht. There had been war again from1689 for twenty-two years, when, October11, 1711, the preliminaries of a Congresswere signed. The contest had smoulderedand flamed in two vast curves by land andsea, one by land from the Netherlands bend-ing in a great arc through the German Em-pire across North Italy to Savoy, and theother curve where the fleets of England be-leaguered the French and Spanish coastsfrom Dunkirk to the Balearic Islands andbeyond. Withdrawal of the Church Begun in the fall of 1711, the last treatyprovided for in its sessions, from January 20,1712, to April 11, 1713, was not signed un-til November 15, 1715—four years, againstthirteen years at Westphalia and a year forthe Congress of Vienna, in 1815. Again,a swarm of lesser lands and three powersdeciding a world fate. The final word laywith two men, Louis XIV of France andCharles VI of Aus