Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of War Weeks and Secretary of the Navy Denby have been casting around for a successful means of defending the Panama Canal. 11 the naval manoeuvres this year (se Page 5), as in the manoeuvres a year ago, the difficulties of defending the Canal have been apparent. The secretaries believe that the defenses must be improved. But a gentleman who arrived from France last week proposed a plan which would take out by the root many difficulties of Canal defense. Lieutenant Colonel Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which...
...opened his campaign for this objective with a notable speech to th. Cincinnati Commercial Club, before which, exactly 23 years ago, he preached the necessity for the Panama route instead of the Nicaraguan. At time he also advocated a sea-level strait instead of a lock canal. The Panama route was chosen but the sea-level program was abandoned on account of expense...
Settlements. Kiel Canal case...
...country of equal strength have for some time been under strained relations. For fear of precipitating war, the American Government has not ordered its Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic. Suddenly, however, the foreign fleet appears in the middle Atlantic. The Pacific Fleet is ordered to the Atlantic via the Canal...
...this stage the manoeuvres will begin. The Blue (American) fleet, which will be represented by the Pacific Fleet, will strive to cross through the Canal protected by the Blue army garrisons of the Canal Zone. The Black (enemy) fleet, which will be represented by the Atlantic Fleet, will try to prevent this operation...