Alaska and the Panama canal . a numljer ofsmaller countries. The only way to create a big city at the central ])()intbetween North and South America, the Atlantic and PacificOceans, the Far East and the Far West, is to make the CanalZone a free city and free port. By this I mean free fromimport or export duties into and out from the Canal will not affect the primary question of tolls for passingthrough the Canal. If created a free port and protectedthrough international treaty, so it could not be aftected bychanges in our administration or home policies, merchants andmanufacturers fr
Alaska and the Panama canal . a numljer ofsmaller countries. The only way to create a big city at the central ])()intbetween North and South America, the Atlantic and PacificOceans, the Far East and the Far West, is to make the CanalZone a free city and free port. By this I mean free fromimport or export duties into and out from the Canal will not affect the primary question of tolls for passingthrough the Canal. If created a free port and protectedthrough international treaty, so it could not be aftected bychanges in our administration or home policies, merchants andmanufacturers from all over the world would build factories PANAMA CANAL ZONE AND REPUBLIC 159 and warehouses and establisli Ijranches and agencies at thisWorld Center for quick distribution, delivery and sale. ManySouth Americans would establish agencies and branches thereto reach the worlds commerce. In fact, it would become animmense Worlds Department Store where everything for theuse of the people of all nations could be found. Tt would. PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS AT NIGHT, SHOWING ELECTRK AL ILLUMINATION OE THE CANAL. become the greatest transshipping i)ort in the world, especiallyas many boats suitable for the Pacific ()cean are not sea-worthy or insurable on the Atlantic Ocean. As lawyers put it: What you have been saying is testi-mony—give us evidence of what a free port or city will dotoward creating a metrojwlis of half a million in a few is the evidence: Hamburg, Germany; Copenhagen,Denmark; (libraltar; Hong Kong (formerly Chinese, nowBritish) ; Singapore; Punta Arenas, Chile; Aden, on the RedSea. and the Island of St. Thomas, near Porto Rico. i6o PANAMA CANAL ZONE AND REPUBLIC After Great Britain had taken Gibraltar from Spain, andthat country would not deal with Gibraltar, the Sultan ofMorocco forced the British Government, in 1705, to make afree port of Gibraltar by refusing to supply the food necessaryto maintain the fortress, unless all import and export duty wastaken off.
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