PANAMA CANAL.
AMERICA'S '• ETERNAL IiISGRACE." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Washington, July "21. Senator Smith argued that the Canal strip was American territory. Senator Lodge concurred, contending that when the ITay-Pauncefote Treaty was drafted nobody expected that the United States would acquire the Canal zone. Senator Smith then pointed out that the United States never went to arbitration on Columbia's claims, when redress for. the loss of Panama was sought. Senator Bacon replied that that did not relieve America of-the responsibility. It was to her eternal disgrace that she had treated a weaker nation as she did Columbia.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 55, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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96PANAMA CANAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 55, 23 July 1912, Page 5
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