It was under these circumstances that the United States, instead of using its forces to destroy those who sought to make the engagements of the treaty a reality, recognized them as the proper custodians of the sovereignty of the Isthmus.
Roosevelt describes the U.S. response to the revolution in Panama and its recognition of the new government.
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