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Panama, the Creation, Destruction, and Resurrection Philippe Bunau-Varilla No preview available - 2018 |
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adopted Amador American Government answer arrived Baron de Reinach Bogota Bunau-Varilla Burdeau cablegram calumny Canal Company Chagres Charles de Lesseps Colombia Colon concession Concha Congress construction Consulting Board contractors Convention of Constantinople cost cubic yards Culebra Culebra Cut danger declared document dredges duty efforts engineers excavation fact favour Ferdinand de Lesseps final France friends Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Hay-Herran Treaty Hay-Pauncefote Treaty honour idea interest Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama January lake later letter lock canal million dollars mind Minister nation necessary Nicaragua Canal November obtain old company opinion Panama Canal Panama Company Paris political possible President Marroquin President Roosevelt question ratification realisation remained Republic of Panama result revolution Reyes rock sea-level canal Senator Hanna sent ships solution Suez Canal technical telegram to-day Treaty of 1846 Truth undertaking United victory vote Washington yellow fever York
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Page 269 - The government of New Granada guarantees to the government of the United States that the right of way or transit across the .Isthmus of Panama, upon any modes of communication that now exist or that may be hereafter constructed, shall be open and free to the government and citizens of the United States...
Page 493 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control...
Page 493 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 269 - And, in order to secure to themselves the tranquil and constant enjoyment of these advantages, and as an especial compensation for the said advantages and for the favors they have acquired by the 4th, 5th and 6th articles of this Treaty, the United States guarantee positively and efficaciously to New Granada...
Page 348 - declare martial law; and, by virtue of vested constitutional authority, when public order is disturbed, [would] approve by decree the ratification of the canal treaty as signed ; or, if the Government of the United States prefers, [would] call extra session of the Congress — with new and friendly members — next May to approve the treaty.
Page 493 - The Canal, when constructed, and the entrances thereto shall be neutral in perpetuity, and shall be opened upon the terms provided for by Section I of Article three of, and in conformity with all the stipulations of, the treaty entered into by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain on November 18, 1901.
Page 337 - I have the privilege and honor of notifying you that the Government of the Republic of Panama has been pleased to designate me as its envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary near the Government of the United States.
Page 336 - Panama have, by apparently unanimous movement, dissolved their political connection with the Republic of Colombia and resumed their independence. When you are satisfied that a de facto government, republican in form and without substantial opposition from its own people, has been established in the State of Panama, you will enter into relations with it as the responsible government of the territory and look to it for all due action to protect...
Page 269 - ... New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Page 351 - The highway from Europe to Asia, following the pathway of the sun, is now to be realized. The early attempts to find such a way unexpectedly resulted in the greatest of all historic achievements, the discovery of America. Centuries have since rolled by, but the pathway sought has hitherto remained in the realm of dreams. To-day, Mr. President, in response to your summons, it becomes a reality.