...signed the 28th of October, 1888, for the fret* navigation of the Suez Canal— that is to say: 1. The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of...traffic, or otherwise. Such conditions and charges of trame símil be just and equitable. 2. The canal shall never be blockaded, nor shall any right of würbe...

...into at the time the United States undertook the construction of the canal. That section declares, "The Canal shall be free and open to the vessels of...commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules [meaning the prescribed rules of neutrality] on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no...

...contained in Article 380, which is as follows: "The Kiel Canal and its approaches shall be maintained free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations at peace with Germany on terms of entire equality". Then follow various provisions intended...

...§§ 366-368. 2 This provision that the canal is to be free and open to the vessels of all nations ' on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be...respect of the conditions or charges of traffic, or otherwise,1 was held by the British Government to be violated by the fifth section of the Panama Canal...