Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the slam-bang attitude of Guatemala's Red-led land reformers, the Figueres approach practically reeked of sweet reasonableness. But the fact remained that any new deal in Costa Rica would surely set the pattern for future negotiations over Unifruit's important holdings in Honduras and Panama...
Died. Monnett Bain Davis, 60, veteran foreign-service officer, U.S. Ambassador to Israel since 1951, onetime Ambassador to Panama (1948-51); of a heart ailment; in Tel Aviv...
...quick dip in the Caribbean. Visibly wilted, the Queen could muster few smiles during a late reception at King's House, mansion of the island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen was startled when a dusky Jamaican, impetuously turned Raleigh, tossed his linen jacket at her feet. Ignoring the incident, the Queen walked on. This week, after landing at Cristobal, Elizabeth and Philip spent a busy day inspecting the canal...
...were Chinese peasants, they probably would prefer the Peking Communist regime to its predecessors. 2) To those who say "Look at the map, look at the Soviet expansion," I reply . . . look at the U.S. bases globally encircling the U.S.S.R. How would Americans feel about a Soviet base near the Panama Canal? How about a Monroe Doctrine for China? 3) I believe the Anglo-American partner ship potentially valuable for peace, as it was for war. But there should be genuine, frequent consultation between partners (as there was, usefully, between President Truman and Mr. Attlee in December 1950). Meanwhile...
Braden remembered seeing Alger Hiss's name in the report. He added an item of interest: "All that made a deep impression on me. Subsequently, I had a run-in with Hiss over Panama bases, and I could see how he was playing the Communist game...