How Norroy Created a New Republic
Written by
George Bronson-Howard
Copyright 1905
Originally published in The Popular Magazine in April, 1905. One of the stories in
This tale deals with a mission for Yorke Norroy, given him by the US President and Secretary of State, to counterattack efforts by the nation of Saxonia to push the country of Colombia into preventing the US from building a canal in Central America. Yorke will decide the best way to handle the situation was to create a new country in the Isthmus. Working against him is the beautiful Dona Ysabela de Tavera and Saxonian operative Graf Herman von Ladenburg.
[Note: history buffs will recollect that Teddy Roosevelt was instrumental in getting Panamanian rebels to declare independence in that northern province of Colombia and then rushed naval forces to the region to recognize and 'defend' the new country, all in 1903.]