THE PANAMA CANAL
AND AMERICA’S TREATMENT
OF COLOMBIA,
WASHINGTON, July 21. Senator Smith, speaking in the Senate, argued that the x’anama Canal was a strip of American territory. Senator Lodge concurred in this view, contending that when Sir Julian Pauncefole (then British Ambassador) drafted tho argeeraent nobody expected the United States to acquire the Canal zone. Senator Smith then pointed out that the United States had never arbitrated, in regard to Colombia,’® claims when redress for the loss of Panama was sought. Senator Bacon replied that that did not relieve America of the responsibility of her eternal disgrace in treating a weaker nation as she did Colombia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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107THE PANAMA CANAL New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 7
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