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

Example Sentences

Great Britain at once protested against the exemption clause as a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty and anti-British sentiment at once flared up in all parts of the United States.

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

Six reasons for the untenability of the American interpretation of Article III, No. 1, of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, p.

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

Under the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, it was explicitly provided that the United States should build the canal, should control, police and protect it, and keep it open to the vessels of all nations on equal terms.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore

The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty was by no means the only evidence of a change of attitude on the part of Great Britain.

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

An Isthmian Commission, created by the United States in 1899, was ready to report upon a route when the second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty was concluded.

From The New Nation by Dodd, William E.