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...Presently we learned that anxiety was also felt in the United States about the air and naval defense of their Atlantic seaboard, and President Roosevelt has made it clear that he would like to discuss with us and with the Dominion of Canada and with Newfoundland the development of American naval and air facilities...
...Fully manned, equipped and defended bases to make this policy goodin Greenland, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, the Azores and the west coast of Africa. This too requires agreement with Britain as to the future defense of these localities...
Said Mr. Stimson: "France has been conquered and the sea power of Great Britain seems to be trembling in the balance. . . . We may be next. It is now recognized that if a powerful enemy secured a base at [Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that...
...French Near East Army in Syria, Frenchmen in Indo-China, threatened by Japan (see p. 28}, in Shanghai, in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies, St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, Chandernagor in India-large groups and tiny minorities alike-declared they would fight on beside Britain...
...Canada today carries more freight by air than any other country, may well become "the air crossroads of the world." From London to Shanghai via Newfoundland, Edmonton, Alaska, the Bering Straits and Siberia is 4,000 miles shorter than via the route now flown from New York across the Pacific...