The Panama Canal: An Elucidation of Its Governmental Features as Prescribed by Treaties; a Discussion of Toll Exemption and the Repeal Bill of 1914; and Other Pertinent Chapters |
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... give a short his- tory of the Suez Canal ; a comparing of notes , with the canal at Panama . Under the national law ... gives way to rational conservatism . A wise con- servatism should be indicative of a normal state of mind ...
... give a short his- tory of the Suez Canal ; a comparing of notes , with the canal at Panama . Under the national law ... gives way to rational conservatism . A wise con- servatism should be indicative of a normal state of mind ...
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... give up the treaty , but to hold England to the con- tract . We cared not for colonies , but did care to keep England from isthmian ownership , and this was the corner stone of the original compact . It is quite evident in looking ...
... give up the treaty , but to hold England to the con- tract . We cared not for colonies , but did care to keep England from isthmian ownership , and this was the corner stone of the original compact . It is quite evident in looking ...
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... give free tolls to her citizens whether she desired it or not ? We are now go- ing by " precise rules , " and it would not do to have too many different rates . There is only one rate prescribed by the rules . These rules relate almost ...
... give free tolls to her citizens whether she desired it or not ? We are now go- ing by " precise rules , " and it would not do to have too many different rates . There is only one rate prescribed by the rules . These rules relate almost ...
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... give more than the main features of the charter here . The first and very important obligation on Ameri- ca is that we guarantee the independence of Panama ; and this without qualification or limit as to time . Per- haps we would be ...
... give more than the main features of the charter here . The first and very important obligation on Ameri- ca is that we guarantee the independence of Panama ; and this without qualification or limit as to time . Per- haps we would be ...
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... give us leave to read them as we please . The large thing to do is the only thing that we can afford to do , a voluntary withdrawal from a position everywhere questioned and misunder- stood . We ought to reverse our action without ...
... give us leave to read them as we please . The large thing to do is the only thing that we can afford to do , a voluntary withdrawal from a position everywhere questioned and misunder- stood . We ought to reverse our action without ...
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