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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 cent Chagres Charles de Lesseps Colombia Colon Colonel Goethals Concha Congress construction Consulting Board contractors cost cubic yards Culebra Cut danger declared Delahaye despatch document dredges duty efforts engineers excavation fact favour Ferdinand de Lesseps final France French company friends HAY-BUNAU-VARILLA TREATY Hay-Herran Treaty honour idea interest Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama January lake later letter lock canal million dollars mind Minister moral nation necessary Nicaragua Canal November obtain old Company opinion Panama Canal Panama Company Paris political possible powerful President Marroquin President Roosevelt question ratification realisation remained Republic of Panama result revolution Reyes rock sea-level canal Senator Hanna sent ships solution soon Suez Canal technical telegram to-day Treaty of 1846 truth undertaking United victory vote Washington yellow fever York
Popular passages
Page 287 - 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 504 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.
Page 504 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these Rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise.
Page 350 - 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 376 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal...
Page 350 - Government of their own, republican in form, with which the Government of the United States of America has entered into relations, the President of the United States, in accordance with the ties of friendship which have so long and so happily existed between the respective nations, most earnestly commends to the Governments of Colombia and of Panama the peaceful and equitable settlement of all questions at issue between them. He holds that he is bound not merely by treaty obligations, but by the...
Page 269 - In the first case — that is, should we consent to the curtailment of our sovereignty and not aspire to the full indemnity, should the canal be opened through Panama, the just wishes of the inhabitants of that department and of all Colombians will be satisfied; but the Government lays itself open to being charged in the future with not having duly defended our sovereignty and with having sacrificed the interests of the nation. In the second case, should the canal not be opened through Panama it...
Page 349 - His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of the United States...
Page 505 - The canal shall be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations, on terms of entire equality...
Page 22 - ... fifteen years Her Majesty's Government have used all the influence they possess at Constantinople and in Egypt to prevent that scheme from being carried into execution.