Word: footholds
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...politician in Manila: "If we invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence would mean the end of a U. S. market which has absorbed 85% of Philippine products. Recently Quezon had his Assembly pass an immigration law, aimed at Japanese infiltration, limiting the quota of every country to 500 a year. Commenting on this...
...shipful of explosives on an apparently peaceful transit of the Ditch; 2) bombers launched from an enemy carrier at sea might succeed in a surprise raid in smashing lock machinery or breaching the great dam of Gatun Lake, thereby draining the Canal of water; 3) having gained a foothold in the Caribbean area, an enemy might go about systematic destruction of the Canal with large-scale attacks...
...with Army bombers and the U. S. Navy vigorously interdicting his supply lines from Europe, setting up such a base would be no cinch. To do so would take a huge fleet which probably would have to get a foothold in South America (preferably on Brazil's jutting coast 1,000 miles from the Cape Verde Islands) before extending himself to the north...
...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, the British have never developed...
...time to prepare for "any eventuality." What eventuality did he see? Said Colonel Knox: "There is a very serious situation in South America . . . almost made to order for penetration of the type Hitler perfected in Europe. We would be in deadly peril if a foreign power gained a foothold there...