Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's right to be in the zone, there is no doubt. Although torn up by the Egyptians in 1951, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 does not expire until 1956. It might prove more interesting to probe into America's right to occupy the Panama Canal Zone. The State Department's 18-year-belated $25 million compensation to Colombia was surely an admission of Theodore Roosevelt's high-handed methods earlier in the century...
...imagine the uproar in Washington if Britain's Foreign Secretary Eden presented a sword from Queen Elizabeth II to Colombia's President [Laureano Gomez] and encouraged the Colombians to reoccupy Panama...
Nowhere else outside the Iron Curtain was there such a May Day as Guatemala celebrated last week. There, in a nation just four hours by plane from the Panama Canal, 20,000 government supporters paraded with floats and banners attacking the U.S. and praising Russia and Communist China. President Jacobo Arbenz proclaimed "our decision to move forward against native reactionaries and privileged foreign countries [and] forge a Guatemala which cannot be soiled by a foreign hand." The President shouted: "The accusation that we encourage Communism is false!" Then he turned and embraced Communist Labor Chief Victor Manuel Gutierrez...
Company lands now planted in bananas, African oil palms and other crops, as well as dairy pastures, planted mahogany forests and building sites, are exempt from expropriation. Thus the drastic seizure will not immediately end United Fruit's Guatemala operation. But eventually, as the inevitable "Panama disease" (a fungus that attacks the roots) sickens the banana lands, the company, deprived of its reserve tracts, will have to cut production. And United Fruit is on notice that further investment in Guatemala would be unwelcome-and unwise...
...Among his biggest: Olympic Oil Lines, A.S. Onassis, Ltd., Olympic Maritime, A.G., Panama Maritime, S.A., South Atlantic Marine...