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That solution means absolute military superiority not only of the area within the Caribbean ring but of the Latin-American approaches beyond it, the approaches from Africa and Europe as well. That is why Army and Naval officers in the Canal Zone impatiently dismiss queries and quibbles about the Canal's local defenses. The Canal is still a focal point of the Caribbean defense system. But the Canal's defense today is just as good as and no better than the defenses of Trinidad, Puerto Rico and the other outlying U.S. bases...
Most of Argentina's fellow American republics thought Axis ships should be seized and had seized as many as they could. Bases were wanted by the U.S. throughout Latin America and most of the Latin-American republics were willing to make bases available. But Argentina had not yet decided to seize ships. Argentina had not yet decided to yield bases for hemisphere defense. With not much trust in the good intentions of any great power, Germany, Britain or the U.S., Argentina was trying to be neutral in an almost totally unneutral world. Acting President Castillo said so again last...
Last week Reader's Digest reported a thriving Latin-American friendship: Current print order of Selecciones del Reader's Digest is 350,000, biggest of Spanish-language magazines. Of these, about 255,-ooo will go to South American newsstands, 75,000 to subscribers, about 20,000 to Spanish classes in U.S. high schools and colleges...
...Latin-American subscribers and newsstands this week, by Pan American Clippers, go 20,000 copies of this issue of TIME, printed on lightweight paper-in English-the new Air Express Edition of TIME...
...Latin America was so nearly solid behind the U.S. against the Berlin-Rome Axis that, in effect, an All-American Axis had been created. Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same. Latin Americans are realists, and active U.S. support for Britain had made the cause of freedom worth joining...