The Panama Canal Conflict Between Great Britain and the United States of America : A Study (Paperback)

1. Article III, no. 1 of the Hay?Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 and section 5 of the American Panama Canal Act of 1912; 2. The claim of the United States that she has granted the use of the Panama Canal under a conditional most-favoured-nation clause; 3. If the use of the Panama Canal by vessels of foreign nations were derived from most-favoured-nation treatment, the United States would not be bound to submit to the rules of Article III, Nos. 2-6, of the Hay?Pauncefote Treaty; 4. Six reasons for the untenability of the American interpretation of Article III, no. 1, of the Hay?Pauncefote Treaty; 5. The American contention that exemption of American coasting trade vessels from the payment of canal tolls does not discriminate against foreign vessels; 6. Is the United States prevented from refunding to her vessels the tolls levied upon them for use in the Panama Canal?; 7. Prominent members of the Senate and many American newspapers condemn the special privileges granted to American vessels by the Panama Canal Act; 8. Two schools of thought concerning the relations between international and municipal law; 9. The Panama Canal conflict and the British-American Arbitration Treaty; 10. Why it must be expected that the Panama Canal will be settled by arbitration.