Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bogotá's sober, influential El Tiempo spoke the Colombian mind: "Never has the country been in such a trance, and it is all due to the impact of the conference. We hope that March won't find us as January was going to catch...
...Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia urged exporters to ship only on the eight vessels of the Great Colombia Fleet (Flotá Mercante Gran Colombiana). Coffee exporters were glad to go along; they did not like the recent 25% increase in freight rates by U.S. lines. Besides, like most Colombians, they are proud of the fleet, which began operations last spring (TIME, May 5) under the joint sponsorship of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, to break what was regarded as a U.S. shipping monopoly. The Colombian Government has helped with exemption from income and excess profits taxes and from port charges...
...with this competition, the U.S. lines, principally Grace,* United Fruit and Lykes, cried for help. They got it from the shipping section of the U.S. State Department; the Embassy in Bogotá was told to point out that Colombia was violating the 1846 treaty of commerce, friendship and navigation. Colombians knew the answer to that one: in the same treaty, the U.S. guaranteed Colombian rights over Panama. The U.S., Colombia claims, violated the treaty when Theodore Roosevelt, as he boasted, "took Panama...
...week's end the Colombian Government had apologized for the rioting. The Foreign Ministry, calling the controversy "important and complex," promised that a solution satisfactory to both countries would be found...
...When the U.S.-inspired revolution broke out in Panama, the U.S. cruiser Nashville and the gunboat Dixie guarded the entrance to Colón's harbor, to prevent landing of Colombian troops. The U.S. promptly recognized Panama's independence. Within a month the new republic granted the U.S. control over a ten-mile strip of land that was to become the Canal Zone...