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Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill.
- Hill, Leonard, Sir, 1866-
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sunshine and open air : their influence on health, with special reference to the Alpine climate / by Leonard Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. By R. B. MOWAT, M.A. FELLOW oF Corpus CHRISTI COLLEGE, OxFoRD; ACTING PROFESSOR OF HistoRy AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, 1925-26; AurHoR or “A History oF EvurRoPEAN DipLtomacy, 1815-1914,” ‘‘ THe DipLomacy oF NAPOLEON,” ETC. One Volume. Demy 8vo. 16s. net. Since the separation of the North American Colonies from Great Britain in 1782, the diplomatic relations of the two countries have experienced many vicissitudes. From the first, official intercourse, if not cordial, was courteous. Trade flourished exceedingly, British books, writers and actors went frequently to the United States ; and many things united to renew the spiritual, although not the political, bonds that had been broken. Nevertheless, for at least fifty years after the War of Independence a large number of questions were left over for settlement, and friction was continually being caused. War might easily have broken out several times ; yet in point of fact it only occurred once— in the years 1812—-1814—and even then it was generally considered to be a mistake. The period of one hundred and thirty years covered by this book was a time of the gradual solving of all the causes of friction. The period saw the United States steadily rise from the position of a secondary Power to that of one of the great and leading Powers of the world. From the earliest years the diplomacy of the United States has been conducted upon the same principles throughout—the principles stated by Washington in his Farewell Address and by Jefferson in his Inaugural. Honest, straightforward, forcible, not afraid to face the prospect of War, the State Department has always looked favourably upon Arbitration as a means of adjusting acute international differences. The British Foreign Office has invariably met this view, sooner or later, in the same spirit. ‘The end of the hundred and thirty years found the two countries with all their difficulties adjusted. The book closes with the ambassadorship of Walter Hines Page who spent himself in the cause of good rela- tions and of justice, and whose influence can never be effaced.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32806668_0168.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)