Since Hiroshima, the U.S.'s fear for the safety of the Panama Canal has trebled and quadrupled. At the order of Congress, the Canal Zone's governor has prepared a six-volume report on how to protect the vital Atlantic-Pacific short cut from atomic bombs. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall, on the hunt for alternate canal routes, last winter flew all over the country between Colombia and the Tehuantepec Isthmus in Mexico.
Last week, to fill a gap in U.S. information, Royall announced a survey of the least known of the possible alternate routes—across the watersheds of the Atrato and Truandó rivers in northwest Colombia....
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