Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coalition; 3) an air force superior to that of any foreign power; 4) construction of military roads; mechanization; air defense for major cities; 5) compulsory military service (labor corps, active service, reserves); 6) suppression of "hyphenated organizations"; 7) inclusion within the U. S. of all territory from Alaska to Panama. Month later, Reader Anderson not only pleaded "satire" but conceded that his proposals were "nonsensical." Now Reader Anderson has reverted to his original views (see below...
...invasion of the Caribbean islands would be a direct threat to the Panama Canal and the mobility of the U. S. battle fleet. A successful invasion of the St. Lawrence Valley would bring the chief war resources of the U. S. -the industrial plants of the Boston -Cleveland -Pittsburgh -Philadelphia quadrilateral - within easy range of enemy bombers. Taking off from Montreal a 250-mile-an-hour bomber can be over Boston in 60 minutes, Buffalo in 75, Pittsburgh in two hours. Established on the line Montreal-Quebec, an invader in strength could move into the northeastern U. S. over...
...press conference that he had sent observers to watch the Nazi attack on Great Britain, and that conversations were under way with the British Government on the subject of the transfer of naval and air bases in the Western Hemisphere for U. S. defense, especially defense of the Panama Canal. And that the U. S. was discussing defense of the Western Hemisphere with Canada...
...ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives her a pet monkey and some soft words, sets out to replenish her treasury and hamstring King Philip by hijacking the Spanish gold train in Panama...
...Spanish sentences. Behind him as interpreter stood handsome, black-haired, flashing-eyed Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless Argentina approved U. S. plans for a neutrality belt around the Americas...