This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... world a new trade route destined to have a profound effect upon commerce and international relations. The abandonment of the long-cherished American preference for the Nicaragua route lias a good deal dampened public enthusiasm, while the details of the arrangement made for Uncle Sam's occupation of the Panama Canal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... world a new trade route destined to have a profound effect upon commerce and international relations. The abandonment of the long-cherished American preference for the Nicaragua route lias a good deal dampened public enthusiasm, while the details of the arrangement made for Uncle Sam's occupation of the Panama Canal strip are in some respects so far from being clean-cut and satisfactory that intelligent Americans will prefer not to read the text of the treaty between the United States and Colombia. We may, however, compliment Colombian diplomacy upon the success it has had in dealing with Uncle Sam, and we may reasonably take an optimistic view of the whole business. The American ideal was an interoceanic canal that should in a true sense be an extension of our own shore line. Although this is not what we have secured in legal fact and form (since SARGENT'S NEW PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. (John S. Sargent, the greatest living portrait painter, finished a picture of President Roosevelt, last month, which meets with favor at the White House, and which we are permitted to reproduce herewith by the courtesy of Collier's Weekly, which has the sole right of reproduction.) we have gone to the opposite extreme and made solemn compact that the canal shall forever be Colombia's and never ours in the public sense, --it being ours only in a private way, just as it would have been the Panama Canal Company's if that concern had been able to finish it), we shall nevertheless be in a position to exerr cise in practical ways a dominant governmental influence, even though, theoretically, we lack public rights... It will lie a trifle anomalous, and Our Arrange'..., . me.nt with from the sentimental standpoint a Colombia. little humiliating, to find that we have entered up...
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Good, worn and soiled, but tight, solid copy. Corners lightly chewed, worn just to boards. Pages browned. Six issues (one volume) of the periodical. Endpapers lightly soiled. Prev owner's bookplate and bookbinder's label inside front cover. This large, heavy book may require extra shipping.
