Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prodded by its own businessmen, pressed by German traders and diplomatic experts, South America might well become an armed threat to the U. S., a base for launching an invasion of North America up the stepladder of the Caribbean islands with a drive to the flank to close the Panama Canal...
...collapse of Britain and the loss of her fleet would plunge the U. S. into a defensive crisis. The U. S. Battle Fleet would have to go streaking for the Panama Canal and the Atlantic. The Pacific, to all intents, would have to be abandoned to Japan. And in the Atlantic Admiral Richardson might conceivably have to pit his great force against an armada of British, French, German and Italian ships, outnumbering him in tonnage more than...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...Panama American defiantly applauded Hull's action, praised him for "tweaking the nose of Reinebeck, who is notorious for his interference with matters not his concern...
Colombia. Though Colombia has not forgotten the rape of its northern province by Roosevelt I for the Panama Canal, its emotional antagonism to the U. S. has diminished with the notable rise of U. S. imports from Colombia, which has made the U. S. its best market for coffee, petroleum and bananas. At the head of its Havana delegation is Foreign Minister Luis López de Mesa...