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Union Oil of California is one of the largest independent producers on the Pacific coast, and owns extensive acreage in California, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Mexico and Colombia...
...Republic of Colombia was to receive gold to the extent of $10,000,000 and $250,000 a year rent for a strip of land covering the proposed canal route. At the last moment the Colombian Senate, undoubtedly hoping to get more money, refused to ratify the agreement with...
...this time Panama was a province of Colombia, and soon after the Senate's refusal to ratify, Panama revolted. It is alleged that American interests stirred up the revolution. What did occur, however, was that the U. S. Navy prevented Colombia* from putting down the revolt; Panama achieved independence, the U. S. got the Panama Canal route...
Those were the times of "Teddy" Roosevelt, President of the U. S. The Panama Canal was the greatest achievement of his foreign policy, a policy which stirred up a hornet's nest about his ears. His energetic action against Colombia was called "a conspiracy carefully planned and cleverly executed," and "one that cannot be justified in morals or in law." Others referred to it as "the blackest page in our history as a nation." Still others said of the President: "Did any civilized representative of superior power ever indulge in browbeating so pitiable and so pitiless? Can such cowardly...
...Since 1903 Colombia insisted that the "Panama Canal deal" was a felony and demanded compensation. In 1921, after much noise and fuss, the U. S. settled with Colombia...