Panama: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1950-1963

Documents in this collection trace U.S.-Panamanian relations during the Cold War. Issues include: ���Panama Stymies Use of Her Flag in Vietminh Trade��� (1955); and ���Ships Enroute to U.S. from Soviet or Satellite Ports��� (1957). A letter to the U.S. Ambassador details ���the possibility that the Conference on the Law of the Sea in 1960 would result in a general acceptance by the United States of a six-mile breadth of territorial sea��� (1960). Other documents chart day-to-day aspects of the economy: a report on sugar production with tables on sugar production and consumption (1950); and an announcement by the Panam�� Canal Company of a contract award for native lumber (1952).