Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership of the club consists of students from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, and Peru; while forty per cent of the group are citizens of the United States...
Thus weakened in Guatemala, TACA lost more face in Costa Rica when one of its planes, on an unscheduled flight, whanged into a mountainside, killing the pilot and five passengers. Hoping the plane had merely made a forced landing in a deserted spot, TACA withheld news of its lateness for several hours. Next morning the San Jose Tribuna printed a scathing editorial, hinted some might have been saved if TACA had reported the missing plane sooner. To make matters worse, TACA's dapper lawyer, Jean La Baron, who constantly puffs on long, thin cigars, was quoted by Costa Rican...
Major Malcolm Stewart, U. S. A. Nicaragua's Army numbers 3,538, with 4,000 reserves. The U. S. has a military adviser there. Nicaragua also has a tiny Air Force and a handful of naval patrol boats (largest, 37 tons). Costa Rica has a standing Army of 339 men, Panama none...
...Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small but touchy nations that lie near the Panama Canal...
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...