We’re Asking for It in Panama

Pigeons come home to roost. This is the plain logic behind much of the news from Latin America. Panama is a specific example. Organized student groups already have demonstrated for a fifty-fifty split on the Panama Canal tolls, ignoring U.S. expenditures; for a monopoly of Canal jobs by Spanishspeaking peoples, which would squeeze out the Yankees; for the “return” of the Canal through nationalization.

The political opposition to the present Panama regime has used students callously as a ferment, incited and guided from the shadows by Communists. The demagogues are hellbent for all the U.S. cash and spoils they see others gathering in Europe and Asia by irresponsible tactics. Why should Panamanians have to work for a living when they have this lucrative canal running through their country?

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Pigeons come home to roost. This is the plain logic behind much of the news from Latin America. Panama is a specific example. Organized student groups already have demonstrated for a fifty-fifty split on the Panama Canal tolls, ignoring U.S. expenditures; for a monopoly of Canal jobs by Spanishspeaking peoples, which would squeeze out the Yankees; for the “return” of the Canal through nationalization.

The political opposition to the present Panama regime has used students callously as a ferment, incited and guided from the shadows by Communists. The demagogues are hellbent for all the U.S. cash and spoils they see others gathering in Europe and Asia by irresponsible tactics. Why should Panamanians have to work for a living when they have this lucrative canal running through their country?