I. ORIGINAL ATTITUDE OF THE UNITED STATES

TOWARDS THE CANAL QUESTION..

II. THE CLAYTON-BULWER CONVENTION.....................

III. PROPOSED CONTROL OF THE CANAL

BY THE UNITED STATES.........

..9

.25

.37

II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES BEARING ON THE QUESTION
OF THE NEUTRALISATION OF WATERWAYS..............................101
III. FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO GIVE TO

THE PANAMA CANAL AN INTERNATIONAL STATUS ...108 IV. CONVENTIONAL AGREEMENTS PROVIDING

FOR THE NEUTRALISATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL 115 V. THE SUEZ AND PANAMA CANALS COMPARED.............. 124 VI. THE FORTIFICATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL.............. 138

I. TREATY OF PEACE, AMITY, NAVIGATION, AND
COMMERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
NEW GRANADA, ESTABLISHING THE NEUTRALI-
SATION OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.........................
II. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR FACILITATING AND
PROTECTING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SHIP CA-
NAL BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND THE PACIFIC
OCEANS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (CLAYTON-
BULWER).....

159

.161

III. CONVENTION RESPECTING THE FREE NAVIGA-
TION OF THE SUEZ MARITIME CANAL.

.167

IV. TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNI-
TED STATES TO FACILITATE THE CONSTRUCTION
OF A SHIP CANAL (HAY-PAUNCEFOTE)......

V. CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA FOR THE CONS-
TRUCTION OF A SHIP CANAL TO CONNECT THE
WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
OCEANS..

SOME PRESS OPINIONS 1911
INDEX............

.175

180

190

194

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A. Alvarez, "Histoire diplomatique des Républiques américaines et la Conférence de Mexico," Revue général de droit international public, tome ix.

Annals of The American Academy of Political an Social Science, July 1903.

D. Antokoletz, La doctrine de Monroë et l'Amérique latine (Paris 1905).

John Austin, Lectures on Jurisprudence or the
Philosophy of Positive Law (London, 1904).
Henry Bonfils, Manuel de droit international public.

Cinquième édition. Par Paul Fauchille (Paris, 1908). Sir Cyprin Bridge, "Naval Strategy and the Panamá

Canal", article in The Times (South American
Supplement), November 29, 1910.

P. Bunau-Varilla, “La question de Panama," article in la
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Charles Calvo, Le Droit international théorique et pratique. Cinquième édition, 1887-95.

Canal de Panamá, Documentos relacionales con este asunto que se publican por orden del Senado de la República (Bogotá, Imprenta nacional, 1903).

George W. Davis, "Fortifications at Panama,” in the American Journal of International Law, vol. iii.