Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...their own. The average American, on the other hand, learns just enough Spanish to get along in his work. ... A typical American sales representative will breeze into the Bogotá branch of the National City Bank and ask for an interpreter to go around and talk to some Colombian businessmen for him; your German will ride two days on muleback to sell a dozen packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand...