The US Secretary of State at the time, Robert Lansing, implied that the US "might use military force" to acquire the Virgin Islands if Denmark refused to sell them to us. Denmark then "quickly" sold them to us.
yes - they said if Germany conquers you we will have to act
you shit stains are all the same. fucking liars
history.state.gov 3.0 shell
history.state.gov
If Germany occupied the Island, it would be Germany we were fighting,
so fuck off shit stain. that you lie so easily is disgusting to me
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On November 15th the Minister again called to see me about the matter and said he was under considerable embarrassment about a question which his Government had asked, but which he had hesitated to present to me. The question was this: “Whether he thought in case the Danish Government did not agree to a sale of the Islands the United States would feel it necessary to take possession of them.”
In reply I told the Minister that while it had not been in my mind that action of this sort would be necessary, as I had hoped some formal negotiation would result in the transfer of the sovereignty, that I could conceive of circumstances which would compel such an act on our part. He asked me what these circumstances were and I replied that they were the ones to which I had previously called his attention, namely, the possible consequence of absorption of Denmark by one of the great powers of Europe. Such a loss of sovereignty would create a situation which it would be difficult to meet other than by occupation of the Islands, in view of the fact that Danish possessions would come under a different sovereignty in Europe and in case it did, the result might be very serious.
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calling that a threat is insane. FUCK YOU NEOCON