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.... 14 Treaties , I, 208–209. 15 The Chinese Repository , XV (July 1846), 364–373. Hereafter cited as Chin. Rep . 16 Chin. Rep ., XV (Aug. 1846), 431. 17 Chin. Rep ., XV (Nov. 1846), 576. 18 FO 17/121, unnumbered, Palmerston to Davis, Jan. 9, 1847; Ibid., desp...

..., nevertheless pressed it. That the Palmerston government was fully aware of its own intentions is also demonstrated, for Palmerston acted upon the advice of the trader Jardine and his agents. At the very least the British hoped to establish a stronghold for themselves in the Chinese trade, if not in China...

... which has come to hand. It also provides illuminating insight into the minds of the nineteenth century Western traders and officials, who, acknowledging the evils of the opium trade, nevertheless pressed it. That the Palmerston government was fully aware of its own intentions is also demonstrated...

... ; and Saleeby , History of Sulu , pp. 196 –9. 25 Miller H. (ed.), Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America , Washington 1937 , Vol. IV , p. 353 . 26 Brooke to Palmerston, 24 January 1851 in British Foreign Office, Borneo Series 12, Vol. 9...

... secured control over Hong Kong as a formal colony, both Lord Palmerston, who then served as the Foreign Secretary, and Queen Victoria expressed disappointment in the acquisition of what they considered as an insignificant island “with hardly a house upon it.” Just as leading politicians of the British...

... to the Rebellion in China, pp. 1–6. 14 Parkes to Hammond, November 23, 1861, in F.O. 17/360, with memos by Hammond and Palmerston attached. 15 B.P.P. 1862 (2976), p. 111. 16 For Hope's recommendation to Bruce of the need for action beyond the walls and his confidence that the home...

... stimulus for increased investment in and migration to various colonies. As the confidant of influential politicians such as Palmerston and Clarendon, and a vocal member of numerous associations and fashionable London clubs, Murchison pushed for British territorial expansion in areas where resource...

... as a means of serving strategy rather than strategy's being designed to promote trade. Attempts to pursue these more or less contradictory policies achieved varying degrees of success and failure. Few clear-headed strategists appear in this narrative. Such giants as Canning, Castlereagh, and Palmerston do...

... as a means of serving strategy rather than strategy's being designed to promote trade. Attempts to pursue these more or less contradictory policies achieved varying degrees of success and failure. Few clear-headed strategists appear in this narrative. Such giants as Canning, Castlereagh, and Palmerston do...

.... cision of the Queen and Palmerston to take Citing Mao Tse-tung's New Democracy, they the issue to the people in a general election. brush aside the opinion of the "majority of The personalities and moral tone of the period Allied observers" who maintained that "the are vividly brought out and, almost...

... topic meriting attention, and that is the apparently universal decline in the skill, steadfastness, and success of the art of diplomacy. Quite apart from the giants of the game in the nineteenth century, BOOK REVIEWS a Palmerston or Bismarck, how competent and how careful, with clearly viewed objectives...

... for the terrible violence that ensued. Both Hindus and Muslims suffered terribly because of the British penchant for all too often operating in a “fit of absent-mindedness,” to use Lord Palmerston's famous quip regarding the British Raj as a whole. 3 In any case, what makes partition an important religious...

... in any China settlement. House of Commons, its narrow margin of In other respects their assessment of the victory in the House of Lords, and the de- Chinese Communists is perfectly correct. cision of the Queen and Palmerston to take Citing Mao Tse-tung's New Democracy, they the issue to the people...

...John Harrison Showa no seishinshi [A History of the Spirit of Showa] . By Takeyama Michihio . Tokyo , 1956 . 159 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 BOOK REVIEWS a Palmerston or Bismarck, how competent and how careful, with clearly viewed objectives, did...

... entertaining style and accept his ideas with little question. The haughty manner of Napier, who attempted to make sudden changes in century-long business practice without previous notice to the Chinese court and disobeyed Palmerston's instructions, is artistically whitewashed by a dramatic description of his...

... the parent of certain of Palmerston's instructions in 1840, which led directly to the most-favorednation clause of the treaty of 1843. The program of cooperation between members of the foreign community at Canton gradually advanced after 1760. At the time of the Lady Hughes affair in 1784 they worked...

... fugados de Jolo, 4 Oct 1836, PNA, M/S 1803–1890 [Exp. 12, unless otherwise specified, will hereafter refer to this set of Declaraciones]; J. Farren to Viscount Palmerston, 29 Feb 1848, PRO, FO, 72/74. 20 Bernaldez (n. 7 above), p. 153. 19 El Gobierno Politico y Militar del Zamboanga a El...

... to Palmerston, urging a “direct armed interference to demand redress for past injuries, and security for the future.” He then recommended, along with the opening of additional Chinese ports, “discontinuance of all those insulting expressions, implying national superiority.” He invoked scriptural authority...