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...handed over to them. . . . Everything that has happened since has only been the result of the surrender of Czechoslovakia, an error without precedent in history on the part of the British leaders and a masterpiece of treason on the part of the French." For the surrender of the Bohemian bastion handed Mitteleuropa to Germany...
...defense, he claims, is one of the things that destroyed France, came near to destroying England. The U.S. and its Latin American allies must not just sit tight behind the oceans and wait to be coventrized. Hemisphere defense must be aggressive defense. It must base itself on the British bastion as long as that bastion can hold out. This means continued aid to Britain without stint, but also without skimping vital U.S. needs...
Behind the British bastion, hemisphere defense must rely on: 1) slowly augmenting U.S. air and naval forces; 2) naval and air bases from Greenland to the River Plate, from Alaska to Chile and as far east in the Atlantic as the Azores. Baldwin insists that defense of the hemispheric eastern coastline is impracticable until the U.S. has a base in the hump of Brazil. But until there is a unified hemispheric strategy, a unified U.S. command, a unified U.S. production plan, says Baldwin, defense effort will be hit or miss, with a dangerous percentage of misses...
Though the U. S. had passed the Lend-Lease Act only 15 days before, the promise of all the aid the U. S. could muster had not been enough to hold Yugoslavia as a bastion for freedom. Or had it? In Belgrade a clock struck midnight...
Freedom Takes a Bastion...