Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow, high-hedged German Legation in Guatemala City, where Gestapo-man Christian Zinsser operated until he left for the Orient, has "no less than 14 short-wave receiving sets," houses two crack German flyers in charge of five airports-all within easy bombing distance of the Panama Canal...
Panama Hattie (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). Ethel Merman's voice and personality pep up the Canal Zone...
...Canal. The Caribbean countries were one war front. Eight declared war against Japan, openly denounced Germany and Italy. Costa Rica and Haiti offered air fields. Colombia promised action "to prevent by all means any menace to the security of the Panama Canal directly or indirectly from Colombia territory." Venezuela strengthened guards at petroleum fields, airports, industrial and military establishments. As Ecuador drafted a pledge of solidarity with the U.S., Guayaquil's El Telégrajo urged that "islands,* ports, coast line, aviation fields and other defense facilities be placed at the disposition of [U.S.] military forces." Panama Canal defenses...
...swept by political cross winds of the present war...Bolivia has all the characteristics of a fortress except arms. And a fleet of bombers, based upon the interior plateau, could dominate-if means could be found to supply them-every strategic point on the continent except the Panama Canal defense zone 2,000 miles to the north." Now top tin source for the U.S., Bolivia ordered added precautions against sabotage of U.S.-bound metals shipments...
...right. But they say both. Well, this time it will be 'plucky little America is fighting your battles. What are all your battleships doing, messing about in the Atlantic and Mediterranean? Send them through the Panama Canal and show you're not a man of Munich...