Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging, so that it never during its two long acts settles down to the evening of pure fun the audience expects. However, the material is there now, and by the time it hits New York, the show should be well enough ironed...
...These battles . . . are strategically one great battle. . . . For if [Germany, Italy and Japan] are to become the undisputed masters of Europe, Asia and Africa, they must be masters of the seas. . . . At the present time we control the Panama passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Britain controls the other passage. While this control remains, the German, Italian and Japanese Navies are divided: the passages through which they must pass in order to concentrate their forces for a decisive blow are plugged in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, Suez and Singapore. . . . The grand objective of the Axis...
...Aria, elected president of the Republic of Panama this week, is a graduate of the Medical School. Youngest chief executive in this hemisphere, he has selected as his cabinet a group of equally young advisers...
Where then is the threat? It is in South America, where the Nazi legions, wielding the double-edged sword of economic pressure and propaganda, may slowly close in on the Panama Canal, undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...
That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...