Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama, there were low mutterings of "Qué horror!" (Outrageous!). From Havana, Trygve Lie cabled apologies. On his whirl through the Antilles and Central America, he had missed a banquet tossed for him by the Lions Club in Panama City's swank Union Club. Some 133 guests, including the entire diplomatic corps, the entire Panamanian Cabinet, the presidents of the National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued...
During the war, the U.S. was chiefly concerned in safeguarding two points essential to hemispheric defense: 1) the jutting bulge of Brazil (ten hours by air from the German threat at Dakar); 2) the Panama Canal. With the consent of the interested Governments, bases were constructed in Brazil (Natal, Recife and six other big fields), in Panama (130 temporary bases, spotted around the isthmus), in Ecuador (Salinas, near Guayaquil, and the Galapagos Islands); in northern Peru at Talara, near Standard Oil [N.J.] fields...
Ecuador. The Salinas air base has been turned over to Ecuador, with a few technicians on hand to keep sand out and the field in shape. At the Galapagos air base (four hours by air from the Panama Canal), a crew of U.S. technicians helps the Ecuadorians shoo the giant turtles off the two fine runways...
...would be well for every American to read the letter by C. Llambi-Campbell and think about it. Many will . . . conclude that the writer is pro-Nazi and dismiss it. It is my conviction, however, that there are millions with similar views. My experience in Panama leads me to think they are justified. I have seen the overbearing insolence of the soldiers we naively call "our smiling ambassadors...
...Last week Mobile's aggressive Waterman Steamship Corp. got around CAB. Through its subsidiary, Waterman Airlines, Inc., the steamship company made a deal to get control of TACA Airways, S.A., shaky Central and South American airline system (TIME, Dec. 31, 1945). As TACA is incorporated in Panama, it is beyond CAB's authority. Yet recently, under the reciprocal rights granted foreign lines, TACA was given the right to operate out of Miami and New Orleans on its routes south...