Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decreed that merchantmen of Panamanian registry should not be armed, Panama's President Arnulfo Arias was on his way out of his country. Three days later Panama had a new, pro-U.S. President. To cynics this seemed like a first-class example of U.S. interference in the domestic affairs of a Latin American country. In fact...
Though President Arias hated to admit it, the economy of Panama depends mostly on the U.S. and the Panama Canal. In his year as President, Arnulfo Arias did his best to make Panama over for Panamanians. He made some threatening faces at the U.S., wrote himself up a neat new constitution with a totalitarian flavor. The constitution extended President Arias' own term, established some profitable Government monopolies, gave the President power to expropriate private property and even take over dictatorial control of the Government...
Before the President's plane had decanted him in Cuba, Panama was abuzz. When he heard that Don Arnulfo was gone, onetime Police Chief Colonel Manuel Pino rubbed his hands. With two other veteran politicos, Julio Fabrega and Leopoldo Arosemena, he had been planning for a month to seize the police force and set up a junta...
...Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
Hiring mercenaries to take American supplies to England on a ship flying the Panama flag is a cowardly way of avoiding responsibility, James Landgan 31 argued. "Much of the fighting against the Nazis is inspired by a faith in the honesty and strength of America," and America must not betray that important responsibility by loss haggling over to peal, he urged...