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...Fully manned, equipped and defended bases to make this policy goodin Greenland, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, the Azores and the west coast of Africa. This too requires agreement with Britain as to the future defense of these localities...
Said Mr. Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that...
...Last week Pan Am's Bermuda Clipper (Betsy to her crews) flew north from Seattle with a new name on her tidy hull-Alaskan Clipper. Lugging deadhead passengers from CAA, Army and Navy, she sat down at Ketchikan, Alaska, soon whisked off, finished her run at Juneau. This week Betsy-a four-motored Sikorsky S-42-will go into regular twice-a-week service, lugging passengers and mail from Seattle to Juneau in seven hours, bringing the vast, untapped riches of the Territory within 24 hours of Manhattan. At Juneau, Betsy will have scheduled connections...
...Nazi-U. S. relations last winter were calm but Sen. Lundeen wanted to seize Bermuda when Britain wouldn't stop...
...Stationing a battle fleet at Bermuda...