...maritime state should command the communication. The twritory through which the canal may be opened ouj;ht to be freed from the claims of any foreign power. No such power should occupy such a position that would enable it hereafter to exercise so controlling an influence over the commerce...

...common protection of all nations, for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication....hereafter to exercise so controlling an influence over the commeree of the world, or to obstruct a highway which ought to be dedicated to the common uses of mankind....

...common • protection of nll nations for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication....freed from the claims of any foreign power. No such poorer should occupy a position that would enable it hereafter to exercise so controlling an influence...

...exploration of the route. t nations, for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication. The territory through which the canal rrny be opened ought to be freed from the claims of any foreign power. No such power should occupy...

...common protection of all nations, for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication....would enable it hereafter to exercise so controlling fin influence over the commerce of the world, or to obstruct a highway which ought to be dedicated...

...common protection of all nations, for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication....territory through which the canal may be opened ought to Ix: freed from the claims of any foreign power. No such power should occupy a position that would enable...

...common protection of all nations, for equal benefits to all, it would be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication....ought to be dedicated to the common -uses of mankind. Hon. Elijah Heis, charge d'affaires in Central America, negotiated a treaty with Nicaragua, in which...

...be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communication. * * * No such power should occupy a position that would...which ought to be dedicated to the common uses of mankind."1 Nevertheless, the administration threatened to send the Hise treaty to the Senate unless...

...be neither just nor expedient that any great maritime state should command the communications. * * * No such power should occupy a position that would...highway which ought to be dedicated to the common use of mankind." The ClaytonBulwer treaty of 1850, providing for the neutralization of any canal or...

...Monroe Doctrine, and his successor, in his annual message to Congress of 1849, had declared that " no power should occupy a position that would enable it...highway which ought to be dedicated to the common use of mankind." The convention concluded with Colombia three years previously contained a special...