Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of joint command in strategic areas is one which Chief of Staff Leahy may help to settle. Wherever he finds Army & Navy serving together, service jealousies will have to be stamped out and the authority of commanders redefined. In the Canal Zone, the Navy will have to fit itself into the command of Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, just as in Hawaii the Army has worked in the harness of Admiral Chester Nimitz...
What Leicester Hemingway, adventurous younger brother of Author Ernest Hemingway, discovered and warned the U.S. about in a Reader's Digest article back in 1940 made news last week. The Army's Caribbean Defense Command arrested 19 Panama Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases...
...Army found how at least one phase of a mare's nest of Caribbean intrigue had worked. The head man was Gough, an ex-rumrunner supposedly turned respectable, who pulled much of his information from a blowsy Colon nightclub. Besides getting service men and canal employes to buy them drinks of colored water at 75? a drink, the cabaret girls were paid off for information they picked up on ship movements. Gough also got information from native labor sent to Panama through an agency his brother helped to run as part of Gough Bros. Enterprises...
...coastline; he might even have said that his Government has already gone as far as it intends to go in placating Pan-Americans: it has warned the Axis that Chile will declare war if Axis subs sink any Pan-American ship in the southern Pacific or attack the Panama Canal...
...TIME, June 8 you say, in part: "The winning of the war has not begun and . . . its losing has gone on apace. . . . Last fortnight came evidence that the Navy is keeping secrets from its Army superiors even in the vital Canal Zone...