The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America

Table of Contents

• 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.
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