Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain of well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those leased from Britain but those at Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone (see map, p. 21)-Trinidad's development stood high on the list of priorities...
...stations for naval, air and land forces. Thus Bermuda and Jamaica are to be major service stations (naval and air); Antigua and St. Lucia are to be secondary ones (for air). Three of the links in the chain will be much more than service stations. Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone will be the key positions...
Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
...Canal Zone is a place to be defended, as well as a base from which to direct air and naval operations over the Caribbean area. Commander of the Panama Canal Department is tall, resplendent Lieut. General Daniel Van Voorhis. He also heads the whole Caribbean Defense Command, which up to now has existed principally on paper. In December 1940, when the War Department was straining every nerve to put the Canal Zone on a war footing, General Van Voorhis had the following important order distributed: "New transportation is arriving in the Department covered with dull finish O.D. paint. In order...
...beyond Turkey are two things Germany wants: the oil of Iraq and the Suez Canal. One arm of the final giant pincers on Suez was already moving in from Libya last week (see p. 28). How soon the other arm would reach across the Levant depended upon whether the Turks would fight...