Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore Roosevelt once made a crack which summed up U. S. policy in Latin America in the days of Manifest Destiny: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." Last week Franklin Roosevelt, fast losing the sunburn he acquired in the Caribbean not far from the Panama Canal, may well have foreseen trouble for his Good Neighbor Policy in the tiny Republic of Panama...
...help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally...
...TIME erred. Lieut. Nicolson was the first fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
...South America. His guests were two good friends, Foreign Minister Julio Argentino Roca of Argentina and Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay. They went there, not so much to hunt as to discuss the defense of the Western Hemisphere's most strategic waterway south of the Panama Canal: the Rio de la Plata, which in English means River of Silver, though the English call it River Plate...
Passamaquoddy or the Florida Ship Canal, it might be abandoned in the face of natural difficulties. The U. S. after eight years had learned that the most soaring projects of State planning had a way of shaking down to workable human proportions...