Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they have also so arranged it that the territory of one of these new puppet States includes the Republic of Panama and our great lifeline-the Panama Canal...
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...
Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...
...Snowball," well - known colored punch-maker of Mt. Auburn Street, received a letter yesterday which demonstrates the true strength of Harvard tradition. The letter was sent by an alumnus named Mr. Haskell, who is a Naval officer stationed at Balboa, Canal Zone. It requested the recipe for a punch to be consumed while listening to the Harvard-Yale football game over the radio...
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...