George S. Morison and Philippe Bunau-Varilla: The Indispensible Men of Panama

摘要

Without the efforts of Morison and Bunau-Varilla it can be justifiably stated that the world would be celebrating the 100 anniversary of the opening of the Nicaragua Canal in 2014. This paper gives a status report of engineering boards and political leaders who were in support of a Nicaragua Canal up to March 3,1899 when the Isthmian Canal Commission was formed. It describes how these two men, through their actions, influenced the decision made on June 28, 1902 by the United States Congress and President Theodore Roosevelt to build a canal at Panama.