Speaker. on many occasions I have addressed this body concerning the Panama Canal. The more one studies its problems the more evident it becomes that these cannot be viewed as isolated subjects but as parts of a titanic struggle in which the great tropical waterway is a key target of a world revolutionary movement. Launched in 1917 during the Bolshevik revolution in Russia by invaders from Western Europe and elsewhere. the vast conspiratorial apparatus of international communism has used the territory of that country as a base of operations for world revolution and as a testing ground for criminal. social. and economic experiments that this diabolical system of Asiatic despotism intends to impose on all countries. Applying the timetested lessons of warfare. its strategists use a combination of flanking with conquests through subversion as the prime method for gaining power over key areas. and without the need for actual warfare. The methods of this destructive force in this regard have been well illustrated by its efforts to gain control over strategic transportation routes and regions. such as the Dardanelles. the Suez and Panama Canals. the southwest Pacific. the Near East. northern Africa. and the Caribbean.