Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

American  

[hey-pawns-foot] / ˈheɪˈpɔns fʊt /

noun

1. an agreement (1901) between the United States and Great Britain giving the United States the sole right to build a canal across Central America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Etymology

Origin of Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

Named after J. M. Hay and Julian Pauncefote (1828–1902), English diplomat

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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

The conflict concerning the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty throws a flood of light on the practice of the United States respecting the relations between International Law and her Municipal Law.

From The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America A Study by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

Page's contempt for the hair-drawn technicalities of lawyers was profound, and the tortuous effort to make the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty mean something quite different from what it said, inevitably moved him to righteous wrath.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

There ought, however, to be no doubt that the United States is as much bound to obey the rules of Article III of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty as Great Britain or any other foreign State.

From The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America A Study by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)

The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty would be executed as amended and no one would care a fig whether it was in its original form or not.

From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles

She therefore signed the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with us in 1901, and a defensive alliance with Japan in 1902.

From From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by Latane, John Holladay