The Panama Canal--a Reexamination: A ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - Počet stran: 46 |
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Strana 13 - Government the use and control for the term of one hundred years, renewable at the sole and absolute option of the United States, for periods of similar duration so long as the United States may desire...
Strana 9 - In exchange, the United States guaranteed the '/neutrality of the isthmus and Colombia's sovereignty over it.
Strana 9 - 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...
Strana 9 - Treaty of Peace, Amity, Navigation, and Commerce between the United States of America and the Republic of New Granada...
Strana 19 - To get an idea of how this situation looks to the people of Panama in 1977, imagine a strip of land extending 5 miles on each side of the Mississippi River within which a foreign power, by virtue of treaty rights granted under suspicious circumstances in 1783, exercises complete control as "if it were sovereign...
Strana 1 - ... Cortes: Today Congress reconvened, after two weeks recess, and the treaty with Panama is the most important business before the Senate. The debates will be long and heated, but there is no doubt that the treaty will be finally approved; since the opposition does not propose to reject that one sided treaty but rather to discredit Roosevelt as much as possible in order to deprive him of the presidential nomination to which he is aspiring.
Strana 13 - Hay was sufficiently impressed by this point to attempt to work out an accommodation. The treaty, therefore (article III) did not use the word "perpetual" but spoke of "a term of 100 years, renewable at the sole and absolute option of the United States, for periods of similar duration so long as the United States may desire . . ." Colombian lawyers, understandly, found this wording a distinction without a difference.
Strana 9 - America, erect or maintain any fortification commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, occupy, fortify, colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America...
Strana 19 - Hay, at the time described the treaty as "vastly advantageous to the United States and not so advantageous to Panama." These inequitable arrangements, moreover, were effectively imposed under a state of duress. Panama's very existence as a nation hung in the balance between her consent to the treaty and continued US protection from Colombia. As I stated earlier, her leadership, the gentlemen who were part of the junta, feared for their lives. She...
Strana 9 - Taylor, not anxious to provoke a military showdown with Great Britain which he knew he could not win, was willing to compromise.