Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign Minister, Yosuke Matsuoka, introduced himself to his staff one day last week. His was a critical audience-blunt Yoshizawa of the American Division, cross-eyed Spokesman Suma, dyspeptic middle-aged clerks and angry youngsters who think Japan should expand all the way to the Suez Canal-who had seen Foreign Ministers come & go like rainstorms. They expected thunder in this maiden speech...
...Port Said, which is the focus of British strategy throughout the region. The outer gate is the island of Perim at the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. In World War I the British found their enemies, the Turks, in Asia and drove eastward and northward from the Canal into Arabia, Palestine and Syria. In World War II, when Italy declared war in June, the British found their enemies on the other side of the gate and faced about to fight westward and southward...
Last time, with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...
...dock (too small for destroyers). At France's Martinique there is a small naval and submarine base, a destroyer dry dock. But of first-class base facilities the Lesser Antilles have none. And it is in this section of the hook that an invader reaching for the Canal would almost inevitably make his strongest effort. Between its islands are scores of deep passages, in its coves thousands of spots from which destroyers, cruisers and patrol bombers could operate as soon as field repair facilities and oil-fuel supplies had been laid down. At the western foot of the Lesser...
...poll question was: "If Germany defeats England, should the U. S. take immediate possession of the English, French and Dutch territories in the area of the Panama Canal?" The answers...