PANAMA CANAL
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE STRESSED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 28. In the course of his Guildhall speech Mr J. G. Winant, the American Ambassador, referred to the importance of Centra! and South America .to the United Nations cause, and also stressed the strategic importance of the Panama Canal to the United States. He said it was always recognised that the safeguarding of tlie canal was an absolutely initial condition for the defence of the American Continent. It was; of the greatest importance for all countries in close proximity to the canal that they should act in unison in the face of external dangers, and, he added, ho hoped and believed that collaboration and solidarity among American republics and between them and the rest of the freedom-loving nations would continue after the present dangers had passed.
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Evening Star, Issue 24286, 29 August 1942, Page 6
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139PANAMA CANAL Evening Star, Issue 24286, 29 August 1942, Page 6
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