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Article: Hay-Pauncefote Treaties
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HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATIES
HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATIES.
The first Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, signed 5February 1900 by Secretary of State John Hay and Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, modified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, which provided for a joint protectorate by England and the United States of any trans-isthmian canal. It permitted the construction and maintenance of a canal under the sole auspices of the United States. The U.S. Senate amended the treaty to have it supersede the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and to give the United States the right to fortify the canal. Great Britain declined to accept the Senate amendments, and the second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty was negotiated, signed ...
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Article: Hay-Pauncefote Treaties
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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... ... John Hay, for the United States, and Lord Pauncefote ... ambassador to the United States, for Great Britain ... modifying the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty , concerning the ... superseding the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, provided that the United States might construct ...
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