Strategy, Diplomacy, and Isthmian Canal Security, 1880-1917Florida State University, 1984 - 568 pages |
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... purchase , a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee later recalled : Some denied the constitutionality and most rejected the policy of entering upon a system of annexing non - contiguous territory and outlying island to the ...
... purchase , a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee later recalled : Some denied the constitutionality and most rejected the policy of entering upon a system of annexing non - contiguous territory and outlying island to the ...
Page 157
William Roger Adams. 32 promoters hoping to profit from American purchase of the islands . Some factual basis for suspicion did exist . The German press speculated openly about purchase hopes , while the Imperial Navy , oblivious to the ...
William Roger Adams. 32 promoters hoping to profit from American purchase of the islands . Some factual basis for suspicion did exist . The German press speculated openly about purchase hopes , while the Imperial Navy , oblivious to the ...
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... purchase . Huntington Wilson sided with his col- leagues and suggested that the time to move was propitious since Ecuador was in desperate need of funds . He warned that the acquisition might arouse antagonism throughout Latin America ...
... purchase . Huntington Wilson sided with his col- leagues and suggested that the time to move was propitious since Ecuador was in desperate need of funds . He warned that the acquisition might arouse antagonism throughout Latin America ...
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