Word: panamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...failure some months ago of the Panama Senate to ratify "the treaty of alliance and friendship," negotiated between Panama and the U. S. in 1924, was ascribed last week by Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg to articles published in the European press last year...
These articles asserted that ratification of the treaty by Panama would be equivalent to the surrender of her sovereign rights, and they pointed out that Panama, as a member of the League of Nations, would be compelled to file the instrument at Geneva and that the League would then "abrogate...
Secretary Kellogg denied that the treaty in any way placed Panama under the protection of the U. S. and that, anyway, the League had no power to abrogate a treaty made by the U. S. with a foreign power...
...treaty, however, requires Panama "to consider herself in a state of war in case of any war in which the United States should be a belligerent." This clause also finds its opponents in Panama, who consider that it detracts much from the full sovereignty of the country, and it is this clause that has been so violently attacked in Europe on the ground that it violates Article XII of the League Covenant...
...exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung in the National Arts Club, Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick sponsored a show aboard the French steamer Paris. Other boats which now float picture galleries: Leviathan (U. S. Line), Santa Luisa and Santa Elisa (Grace Line), Colombia (Panama Mail...