This is just a guess but maybe he feels out of place in the US.
Large and expensive education programs and highway interstate systems were being put in.
The Potsdam Conference held after WWII was the final meeting by the allies that was held to discuss the agreement for what will happen to Europe after the war. It divided Germany into four zones an control over these zones by an Allied Control Commission.
He gives his support to Panama in this way Panama would be an independent country, but later his independence Panama started to use the US ways or wanted a same system like US.