Word: aikman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet above the beach on a ridge of sand. It was not a regular gun post, with an emplacement and protecting sandbags, but just one machine gun on a tripod with two young men in German uniforms behind it. Finucane's second-in-command, whose name was Aikman, saw a burst from the machine gun go through Paddy's starboard wing and radiator. A split-second later Pilot Officer Aikman blew the gun post to blazes. But it was a split-second too late for Paddy Finucane...
Hasty, exuberant, The Ail-American Front was evidently talked into the typewriter. But Aikman's analysis of South American economics, politics and states of mind is based solidly on a vivid air view of the continent (its great mountains isolating nation from nation, slowing trade and intercourse), on a perspective of 400 years of feudalism (the conquistadors having had, unlike North American pioneers, a glut of Indian manpower from the first), and on a good deal of shrewd observation on the ground. He succeeds better than most previous writers in conveying the fact that "our national individualities are shockingly...
Current signs of amity, Aikman believes, are due to the Good Neighbor policy and the War. "The State Department . . . took its partial defeat at Lima with a minimum of moral pout and snobbery, and at Panama, in September 1939, it had its partial reward. . . . [But] the U. S. . . . came to Panama with the fiscal and economic power to ruin or succor a dozen or more republics whose trade ties and money links with Germany . . . had been completely disrupted by the War . . . Uncle Sam had suddenly become the only banker and grocer on his street." Unchanged remain the bottom facts that...
...little modest specification would sometimes help Aikman's survey, for though the reader may learn from him that foreign investment in Argentina is $4,432,000,000, the reader must turn to Miss Carr's Primer for names of U. S. corporations involved (Du Pont and Elizabeth Arden are two). Pertinent and electrifying are the bits of "U. S. Colonial" chitchat that Reporter Aikman picked up over highballs in South American capitals. Samples...
...home readers these remarks may seem oldfashioned, but one of the concerns of Duncan Aikman is to show that they are typical, if extreme; that North Americans of branch office calibre are often content (and of course mutually encouraged) to behave like boors and babies in a society too proud, too archaic, too difficult for them to understand. Aikman finds that the universal South American deduction is that the Good Neighbor policy of Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt will be ditched by the first Republican Administration to take office...