Ke Alahou, Volume I, Number 6, 1 May 1980 — Aspects of Foreign Policy of the Kingdom of Hawaii [ARTICLE]

Aspects of Foreign Policy of the Kingdom of Hawaii

Ka Papahana Kuwaho o ke Aupuni MoM of Hawai'i nei

Kaulaoa ke Aupuni Mo'i o Hawai'i nei i ka wa mamua. He aupuni li'i wale no, aka nui kon&'hanohano i na 'aina apau.lpa o ke ao nei. He lala ua aupuni la o ka hui o na 'oihana leka hui pu'ia o ke ao (The World Postal Union). Ua ho'omakaukau 'ia keia hui i kaM.H. 1874 i Berne, ke kapikala o ka 'aina Kuikilana. (SwUzerland). He kanaiwakumakolu'ko Hawai'i nohona kuhina a noho o ke kanikela (legations and consulates) rna na 'aina 'e i M.H, 1892. '0 J. MottSmith, ka 'elele aupuni oJHtawai'i ma Wahinekona fWashington), 'o Mr. Abraham Hoffnung ma Ladana (London), a 'o R. Walker īrwin ma Tokio (Tokyo). He 4 elima mau kanikele Hawai*i ma ka 4 aina Kelemania (Germany), i na kulai>akauhale 'o Bremen, Hamburg» Frankfurt (Main), I)resden, a me Karlsruhe. he ho'okahi kanikele i noho ai ma Vienna t ke kapikala kaulana o ke Aupuni Mo*i o Aukalia (Austria). 'O Mr. von Schonberger kona inoa.'Nui ka ha'aheo o'Hawai'i nei i kela manawa. * 'O ka "Royal Hawaiian Military Band" ka bana puhi. 'ohe o ke Aupuni Mo'i. A 'o Hanale Bergei\ ke alaka'i bana mai ka M.H. 18?2 a \ ka M.H, 1915. Kaulana no hoi 'o Berger me kana bana a i ka holo maka'ika'i o ka Mo'i paYidLa'amea Kalakaua i Berlin ma ka M.H. 1881, ua ho'okani melekekahi bana o ka 'oihana koa o Kelemania i na niele o ka Berger bana. Hdu oli iho la ka Mo'i ame kana mau kahu i ka ho'olohe 'ana o na mele hone o Hawai'i nei, Mai poina kakou i ke Aupuni Mp'i o Ilawai'i nei no ka 'olu'olu, ke kaulana ame ka ha'aheo! Niklaus R. Schweizer, Phd Honoraw Consul of % Sivitzerland > * Aspects of the Forqign relicy of the Kingdom of Hawa| For nearly all o!f the hineteenth century there existed in the vast rjecesse| of the eastern facific a

small yet viable island monarchy s the Kingdom of Hawaii, of Ke Aupuni Mo'i, as the Hawaiians cal!ed it. Founded around 1800 by Kamehameha I the little state flourished considerably longer than certain observers predicted, and it made an impression on the world, the echoes of whieh ean still be heard if one listens carefully enough. There were essentially three reasons whieh made such a phenomenon as the fīawaiian Kingdom possible in a century marked by the rather unabashed colonialism of the western world. These underlymg causes were: 1. the stature of the founder; 2. the geographic location; and 3. the diplomatic skillof the Hawatlans and their advisors. The stature of Pai'ea Kamehameha today is above dispute. A warrior or great mettle and courage he became a wise and disciplined statesman oneehe had consolidated his reālm. Of the many pos{.tive eomments made by Europeans we may select \vhat Adelbert von Chamisso, the first German poel to reach Tlawaii (in and 1817], had to say: "Three prominent men of the old time. I elaim the honoe. shookhands with me: Tameiameia s Str Joseph Bauks, and Lafayette." The geographtc looation of Hawaii appeared strateg\cally so stgnifu\\nt that no ma]or nineleenlhcentury power wak witlmg to see the Islands fall iiiii? thetlanch of a rival, In other \vords En&laiui Russia. Oermany. States and towards the end of the century fapan essentially favored the continuing independence of a neutral Hawaii. The United States went further than the other powers to declare that if some foreigu naUon shou!d to lake over the Islands, the United States wouid rt?serve lh.e right to intervene Hrst. In the absetice of such au nttmpt the X T n\ted States as expressed % in various diplomatic notes tooked at Hawaiian independence relative benevolence

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