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...only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only six escort vessels, ten coast-guard gunboats and three patrol vessels. Once landed, a strong hostile force would have only the difficulties of the terrain and a doubtful Army between it and the U. S. border. The Mexican Army has a peacetime strength of 56,000, which can be increased...
...Outposts. Rimming the Caribbean on the north are Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Cuba has a well-trained, well-fed, well-housed, well-equipped Army of 8,000, plus 6,000 Rural Guardsmen and 48,000 reserves. Cuba has also a Navy of 2,000 men, manning two escort ships, five gunboats, an armed transport and six coast-guard ships. Air Force: 116 men, 16 planes. The Dominican Republic's Army, trained by the U. S. Army and Marines, numbers 3,300 men; its Navy consists of four coastal patrol boats and a transport. Haiti has an armed...
Through Philadelphia streets flew Edward with a police escort, sirens screaming. He told them to pull up at the store of Nick Smar, who took the watch, turned it over, almost dropped it in his excitement. Tremblingly Mr. Smar fixed the crystal, indignantly turned down the $10, wrote "With the compliments of Nick Smar" on the back of his business card. Back to the railroad car flew Edward, with watch, $10, and card. Mr. Early forgot...
...chief adult escort for the children, onetime Headmistress Miss Margaret Elizabeth Day of Wycombe Abbey School, told a racking account of the disaster: "I was in my cabin when I heard an explosion. As I seized my coat and life belt, water was entering the cabin. I dashed to the children's quarters and found them still asleep. . . .An officer shouted to the children to hurry on deck, and we started, with the children behaving magnificently. . . .We clambered into a lifeboat but it had shipped much water and its rudder was gone. . . .The children were singing Roll...
...after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of land. To a defender it is valuable as a base for ranging out to sea against an invader, flanking him if he gets through and tries to enter the St. Lawrence...