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Title: The Panama Canal Conflict between Great Britain and the United States of America
A Study

Author: Lassa Oppenheim

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THE PANAMA CANAL CONFLICT
BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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C. F. CLAY, Manager

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THE PANAMA CANAL CONFLICT

BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A STUDY

BY

L. OPPENHEIM, M. A., LL. D.

Whewell Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge
Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence at Madrid Member
of the Institute of International Law

SECOND EDITION

Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913

Cambridge:

PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M. A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

To my great surprise, the publishers inform me that the first edition
of my modest study on the Panama Canal conflict between Great Britain
and the United States is already out of print and that a second edition
is at once required. As this study had been written before the
diplomatic correspondence in the matter was available, the idea is
tempting now to re-write the essay taking into account the arguments
proffered in Sir Edward Grey's despatch to the British Ambassador at
Washington of November 14, 1912--see Parliamentary Paper Cd. 6451--and,
in answer thereto, in Mr Knox's despatch to the American Charge
d'Affaires in London of January 17, 1913--see Parliamentary Paper Cd.
6585. But apart from the fact that the immediate need of a seco