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Since President Dr. Arnulfo Arias fled from Panama, was succeeded by Adolfo de la Guardia, while Inside Latin America was in the press, the chapter on Panama is slightly dated. But there are excellent sidelights on Arias and some disturbing pages on the vulnerability of the Canal. People usually forget that there is no road across the Isthmus parallel to the Canal. "The Panama Railway (which is owned and operated by the United States) had, by charter, the right to veto any proposal for a highway that would cut into its lucrative business." President Roosevelt has ordered work begun...
...Arnulfo Arias who, a week before, had been President of Panama (TIME, Oct. 20). This time, it seemed, Dr. Arias was going for good: new President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia and his cabinet had given the flashy ex-President his freedom on condition he would go into exile...
...decreed that merchantmen of Panamanian registry should not be armed, Panama's President Arnulfo Arias was on his way out of his country. Three days later Panama had a new, pro-U.S. President. To cynics this seemed like a first-class example of U.S. interference in the domestic affairs of a Latin American country. In fact...
Though President Arias hated to admit it, the economy of Panama depends mostly on the U.S. and the Panama Canal. In his year as President, Arnulfo Arias did his best to make Panama over for Panamanians. He made some threatening faces at the U.S., wrote himself up a neat new constitution with a totalitarian flavor. The constitution extended President Arias' own term, established some profitable Government monopolies, gave the President power to expropriate private property and even take over dictatorial control of the Government...
Before the President's plane had decanted him in Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...