... s may, and do, plead that the needs of the modern world justify them in gaining control of the mineral resources of the Caribbean area, inhabited by backward people. French Imperialists may plead—as we have ourselves pleaded in this book—that the existence ...

... important centre, since, through the construction of the Panama Canal half the world's liners would soon be passing through the Caribbean Sea. American Capitalists objected to this concession, for they regard Mexico as their special sphere of expansion. Rival ...