PANAMA AND THE CANAL
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) PANAMA, April 18.
Mr Ernesto de la Guardia, the President of Panama, said today that Panama “could not realistically think of operating and protecting the Panama Canal alone.” This was his view, "in a world subject to bitter rivalries between the great Powers,” he said. “I think that nationalisation of the Panama Canal is not a public issue in Panama.”
The President, defining his country’s position on the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone, also dealt with the issue of sovereignty. He said: “Panama granted the United States Government jurisdictional—and only jurisdictional —rights in the Canal Zone, for the specific purposes of ‘construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the canal,’ without relinquishing sovereignty over that territory.”
President la Guardia’s statement is regarded in Panama as the most forthright definition yet of Panama’s position on the Panama Canal since President Nasser’s nationalisation of the Suez Canal in Egypt on July 26 last year.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 11
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