Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Panama City's model jail and in to a special airplane this week walked...
Arnulfo Arias who, a week before, had been President of Panama (TIME, Oct. 20). This time, it seemed, Dr. Arias was going for good: new President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia and his cabinet had given the flashy ex-President his freedom on condition he would go into exile...
Thus quietly ended the chapter of an other would-be strong man. In Panama the new Cabinet rescinded the ex-President's decree forbidding the arming of Panamanian merchant ships. In Washing ton Secretary of State Cordell Hull foot noted last fortnight's coup with a documented statement proving that the U.S. had not put so much as its little finger into Panama's political...
...warmongers tell us that because the American flag has been fired on, it must be systematically exposed to fire; that because American seamen have been endangered or killed, thousands more American seamen must be exposed to worse dangers; and that because some American ships under Panama registry have been sunk, it is necessary to provide for the sinking of great numbers of American ships under American registry...
...moaned that the news of the new Government was "a great surprise," waited for official permission to go back to his country. When permission did not come, he decided to go back anyway. Six days after he had left, the ex-President was on his way back to Panama and almost certain arrest for leaving his country without permission...