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...Navy's great base on the Pacific side of the Canal at Balboa. And while the Pacific Fleet was exhausting fuel and losing time going around the Horn-a 48-day run-he could make sea and air raids on the continental U. S., might possibly even grab Bermuda, only 700 miles from New York and Philadelphia...
...Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
Laval had seen Mussolini stop Hitler when he tried to grab Austria in 1934. In 1935, as Foreign Minister, Laval built the Stresa Front of France, Great Britain and Italy, only to see Britain crack it within two months by signing a naval treaty with Germany. The Hoare-Laval deal in 1935 would have kept Italy out of Germany's clutches, thought Pierre Laval. But neither the British nor the French people would have any of that deal. Laval went into retirement and the Popular Front came into power...
...surprising that the German Legation at Bucharest was surprised at the Russian grab. Germany had already recognized Russia's claim to Bessarabia and would hardly have objected, even though King Carol had gone Nazi in a belated effort to get German protection (TIME, July 1). Both Berlin and Rome professed disinterest in what Russia was doing, blamed any agitation about it on a British plot to open an eastern front. Germany insisted that she would not be drawn into any Balkan adventure now and Italy told Hungary and Bulgaria not to press their claims against Rumania. But Berlin hinted...
...position to the east of Hitler's Europe. On the heels of her occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, those three countries set up left-wing Governments that looked like steppingstones to complete sovietization. Hotly Russia's official news agency Tass denied that her Baltic grab was aimed against Germany. Tass said only 18 or 20 divisions, not the 100 reported from London, had moved into the Baltic States. Germany took the occupation calmly. Germany's calm was doubtless real, since last year's deals gave Russia a free hand in the Baltic as well...