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...three-day action while 15,000 more backed them up on the supply lines and in the air. Strategically it was also the most significant. In that area, east of the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg (captured by the British in 1813), Army troops would be gathered for flank assault if the U. S. should be invaded from Canada...
...immediate danger, to ward off a future menace. Before the Conference met, each Latin-American complication, from the fate of the French Island of Martinique to Nazi activities in Uruguay, was a source of U. S. anxiety; after the Conference the prevailing belief was that the U. S. southern flank was se cured, provided means set up at the Havana Conference were implemented...
Leewards to Venezuela. From this eastern outpost the hook swings on south, to the British-owned island of Trinidad off Venezuela's northern coast. Trinidad is an operating base to make an invader's eyes gleam-a bountiful oil and gasoline supply, strategically laid in flank of traffic from South America where he might have a foothold. It would also make an important U. S. outpost, completing the defense set-up of the hook. Its anchorages are deep and wide and its northwest coves would make good seaplane bases. Since it lies well within the U. S. sphere...
...Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia. Prodded by its own businessmen, pressed by German traders and diplomatic experts, South America might well become an armed threat to the U. S., a base for launching an invasion of North America up the stepladder of the Caribbean islands with a drive to the flank to close the Panama Canal...
...short, if Britain is beaten, there is a prospect that the only genuine security which the U. S. can gain is to set up its own right as mistress of the seas. Any other policy would expose the U. S.'s weak Latin-American flank. But in this policy the U. S. faces a multitude of difficulties. The question is not only Can it be done? but Is the U. S. willing...