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On March 5, 1941 President Dr. Arnulfo Arias of the Republic of Panama eased a big U.S. defense worry. In a manifesto he declared Panama would co-operate in hemisphere defense by providing the U.S. air bases in Panama's territory. This set U.S. military minds at rest for two reasons: 1) the U.S. would get needed bases and 2) the U.S. would not have as much troubled with President Arias as it once was feared it might.
 The Panama Canal is vital to U.S. defense because it enables a one-ocean Navy to fight in two oceans. To protect the Canal against air raiders, the U.S. must station planes outside the Canal Zone to intercept bombers before they get near the Canal. Already the U.S. has at least one base outside the Zone (Rio Hato). under the new arrangement it will have other bases, listening posts, communications centers and anti-aircraft stations scattered all throughout the isthmus jungles.
The U.S. had fears of trouble with President Arias, who is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, because after his election last autumn Dr. Arias adopted a strong nationalist, "Panama for Panamanians" policy. He did not seem disposed to help the U.S. Now that he is so disposed, the first line of Canal defense will be pushed farther out in front of the big guns which guard the Canal Zone's two coasts.

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History of DLIFLC


The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) traces its roots to the eve of America’s entry into World War II, when the U.S.Army established a secret school at the Presidio of San Francisco to teach the Japanese language. Classes began November 1, 1941, with four instructors and 60 students in an abandoned airplane hangar at Crissy Field. The students were mostly second-generation Japanese-Americans (Nisei) from the West Coast. Nisei Hall is named in honor of these earliest students, whose heroism is portrayed in the Institute’s Yankee Samurai exhibit. The headquarters building and academic library bear the names of our first commandant, Colonel Kai E. Rasmussen, and the director of academic training, John F. Aiso.
During the war the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS), as it came to be called, grew dramatically. When Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were moved into internment camps in 1942, the school moved to temporary quarters at Camp Savage, Minnesota. By 1944 the school had outgrown these facilities and moved to nearby Fort Snelling.
More than 6,000 graduates served throughout the Pacific Theater during the war and the subsequent occupation of Japan. Three academic buildings are named for Nisei graduates who fell in action: George Nakamura, Frank Hachiya, and Y. “Terry” Mizutari.



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