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...Control by U. S. is possible.- (A) Clayton Bulwer treaty is ineffective: (Rodrigues, esp. 226-227; Hall, Int. Law, 294-297; Wharton, Digest II, p. 238).- (1) Conditions are now different.- (2) England has violated this treaty.- (B) Nicaragua is willing...
...Control of the canal by the United States would be inexpedient.- (a) It would involve a breach of the Clayton. Bulwer treaty: L. M. Keasby in Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. Science, Jan., 1896, p. 21.- (b) No rights of exclusive control have been conceded to the United States by Nicaragua: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) The treaty of 1867 gave only the right to build the canal.- (c) European powers would not permit exclusive control by the United States: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., '96).- (1) As is shown...
...Open the door to fraud and corruption. - (b) As a foreign policy. - (1) No single country should control the canal: Sat. Rev. LVIII, 784, and Cleveland's Message (Dec. 8, 1885). - (x) An international affair. - (2) Seriously complicate our foreign relations: Nation, XXXIX, 496. - (x) England and Clayton - Bulwer Treaty. - (y) Other commercial powers interested. - (3) Would lead to acquisition of foreign territory - which is undesirable: Nation, XXXIX, 538. - (x) U. S. has enough to do with present territory. - (y) Absorption of Central America and possibly Mexico. - (1) Instability of governments and turbulence of people...
...Clayton - Bulwer Treaty forbids such action. - (a) Treaty still in force. - (1) Asserted by Great Britain in 1881: For Rel., 1881, p.549. - (2) By U. S. in 1873: Rodrigue's, 212. - (3) Nothing subsequent to render treaty void: Nation, XXXIX, 496; Hall, 290 - 5. - (b) Great Britain will not give up treaty. - (1) Interests vitally at stake: Sat. Rev., LVIII...