Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very much surprised to read in TIME for Oct. 20 the Panama story entitled "The Doctor Takes a Trip." You mention "At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station." Please understand that Balboa is in the Canal Zone and if the Cabinet met in any police station they met in the Panama City police station. If your article was true then you are contradicting Secretary of State Hull's statement that the U.S. Government had nothing to do with the change of Government here in Panama which is absolutely correct...
...MADURO Panama City, Panama...
...they have also so arranged it that the territory of one of these new puppet States includes the Republic of Panama and our great lifeline-the Panama Canal...
Since President Dr. Arnulfo Arias fled from Panama, was succeeded by Adolfo de la Guardia, while Inside Latin America was in the press, the chapter on Panama is slightly dated. But there are excellent sidelights on Arias and some disturbing pages on the vulnerability of the Canal. People usually forget that there is no road across the Isthmus parallel to the Canal. "The Panama Railway (which is owned and operated by the United States) had, by charter, the right to veto any proposal for a highway that would cut into its lucrative business." President Roosevelt has ordered work begun...
Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...