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...alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted shortly. The company intends to have the service functioning before...
...Nearly completed were negotiations for eleven air-base sites on the vulnerable Atlantic hump of Brazil. Nominally, these new fields are to be built and operated by Pan American Airways. Actually, they will be constantly available for overnight occupation by U.S. military air forces. Two similar fields are also to be placed in Paraguay...
Trinidad is the southern spearhead, where defense is most urgent because it lies athwart the most practicable route for an enemy move from Dakar in western Africa, thence to some landing point on the eastern hump of South America, and northward to the Canal Zone, Central America, the U.S. itself. Geographically, Trinidad is also in a position to protect-or to dominate-the whole uncertain reach of northern South America. So far it is not a protection but only a position...
...Army. One was from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. The other was from Brigadier General Harry Lewis Twaddle,† who last week took over the General Staff division (G3) in charge of Army mobilization, operations, organization and training. Gist of both reports: the Army is over the hump. It is far better off than was the U.S. Army of 1917. It will soon be the first Army-in-being, ready to fight, which the U.S. ever had before entering a war. But big as is the hump that the Army has ably surmounted, citizens will make a great mistake...
...naval forces; 2) naval and air bases from Greenland to the River Plate, from Alaska to Chile and as far east in the Atlantic as the Azores. Baldwin insists that defense of the hemispheric eastern coastline is impracticable until the U.S. has a base in the hump of Brazil. But until there is a unified hemispheric strategy, a unified U.S. command, a unified U.S. production plan, says Baldwin, defense effort will be hit or miss, with a dangerous percentage of misses...