Strategy, Diplomacy, and Isthmian Canal Security, 1880-1917Florida State University, 1984 - 568 pages |
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Page 90
... efforts to achieve canal security rested ultimately on Congressional authority to proceed with actual construction of the line , a brief review of legislative developments is in order . A generally unacknowledged result of the Spanish ...
... efforts to achieve canal security rested ultimately on Congressional authority to proceed with actual construction of the line , a brief review of legislative developments is in order . A generally unacknowledged result of the Spanish ...
Page 91
... effort , the author declared , there was throughout the world a growing disposition in favor of state promotion in such efforts . The political difficulties surrounding the Central American waterway made national sponsorship even more ...
... effort , the author declared , there was throughout the world a growing disposition in favor of state promotion in such efforts . The political difficulties surrounding the Central American waterway made national sponsorship even more ...
Page 248
... effort , its leaders were often exasperated by what they regarded as unreasonable demands upon their nation as well as ... efforts made by the Panama Canal Government to provide for the wartime security of the canal is found in Governor ...
... effort , its leaders were often exasperated by what they regarded as unreasonable demands upon their nation as well as ... efforts made by the Panama Canal Government to provide for the wartime security of the canal is found in Governor ...
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