Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than a liberator. He looked beyond South America, beyond the hemisphere. He backed the Monroe Doctrine. In his call for the first Pan American Congress, to meet in Panama, in 1826, he declared that Latin American countries should cooperate to oppose the "foundation of any foreign colonies on the American continent." He said, too, that he hoped some day there would be in Panama "an eminent Congress made up of representatives from all the republics, kingdoms, and empires to discuss and decide the great problems of peace and war with the nations of the world...
...hopes for the 1826 Pan American Congress, like many of his dreams, came to little in his lifetime. No envoys appeared from Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Bolivia; of two U.S. representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...
...countries through which it passes $74 million more. Some sections have been built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Public Roads Administration. Others, like the highway in Mexico, are a tribute to local effort. Of the 3,260 miles from the U.S. border to the Panama Canal, 425 miles are usable only in dry weather, 245 miles through jungle and mountain country are still impassable. Three years and $65,000,000 will finish the job, said white-haired E. W. James, chief of the Inter-American Regional Office of the Public Roads Administration, last week...
...Investigating committee had some tough words to say about the highway. The committee concerned itself little with the road's prewar history, much with the wartime chapters, when German submarines threatened sea lanes in the Caribbean and a rush job sought to drive the highway through to Panama...
...Eisenhower bore down on the importance of having U.S. military missions in each of the 20 republics. Navy Secretary James Forrestal pointed out that 100 surplus U.S. warships in friendly Latin navies (including two cruisers to Brazil, one apiece to Chile, Peru, none for Argentina) would help protect the Panama Canal. Secretary of State Marshall summed up: "The opportunity to give material assistance to the foreign policy of our country at so little cost should not now be lost." The new bill, as Marshall pointed out, set Army expenditure at only $10,000,000 a year "for a period...