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...chain of Atlantic defense sites on which the U.S. is to build bases now reaches from Greenland to British Guiana. In a sweeping agreement with the Danish Minister in Washington last week, the U.S. took over protection of the world's biggest island, moved the U.S.'s outermost line of potential defenses 900 miles nearer Europe, only three miles from the Nazi war zone. Yet in a week of staggering reverses and calamities, the U.S. could draw one lesson clearly: the new base sites should have been secured long ago, so that instead of sites we would have...
...acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area of 18 sq. mi., one of 12, one of 2 and one of 96 acres); British Guiana (one area of 2½ sq. mi. and one of 1.400 acres...
...British Guiana is equidistant (1,450 miles) from the Canal and Natal, Brazil, hub port of the South Atlantic. There the U. S. Navy will build two air bases - a patrol plane squadron base and airdrome 25 miles up the Demerara River, a seaplane base near Suddie...
...refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
...week's end, Secretary of War Stimson hinted that "diplomatic steps" were being taken to assure adequate defense for the "southern anchor" of the new Atlantic defense line. Rumors flew that negotiations with The Netherlands Gov ernment in London were under way for base sites in Dutch Guiana. Curagao. It looked as if President Roosevelt might be getting ready to step from the wings with an announcement...