sentences:  The reaction to the award was surprise, with the award's lack of reasoning a particular concern.The Venezuelans were keenly disappointed with the outcome, though they honored their counsel for their efforts (their delegation's Secretary, , received the Order of the Liberator in 1944), and abided by the award.The Anglo-Venezuelan boundary dispute asserted for the first time a more outward-looking American foreign policy, particularly in the Americas, marking the U.S. as a world power.