1. The Reopened Door.
- Subjects
FREE ports & zones ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,TREATIES ,DIPLOMACY - Abstract
The method by which the United States has negotiated for free ports in Manchuria is instructive. Secretary John Milton Hay and the Russian charge d'affaires met in Washington and came to terms for China. Their preliminary agreement has been sent to China, for confirmation by the Emperor, whose assent is taken for granted. Rightly to weigh the value of Hay's treaty, it should be realized that he probably maintains the diplomatic fiction of a Chinese Manchuria merely as a pious hope, and as a technical advantage in negotiating with the most slippery of Foreign Offices. What Hay is after is trade privileges. He has exhausted all the resources of diplomacy to force Russia to grant free entry in Manchuria to the entire world.
- Published
- 1903