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Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...
...Among the islands where Britain will lease air or naval bases to the U. S. are: 1. St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, Bermuda, Newfoundland. 2. Trinidad, Antigua, Bermuda, Newfoundland, Jamaica. 3. Trinidad, Martinique, Bermuda, Jamaica, Newfoundland. 4. Cocos, Bermuda, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes. 5. Newfoundland, Guantanamo, Great Barrier Reef, Trinidad, Bahamas...
...object is age-old: an exit from the Black Sea. Russia's only other outlets to the world are through Vladivostok, the Baltic and the Arctic Ocean. The U. S. would be in a similar position if its only outlets to the world were through Alaska, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the mouth of the Mississippi, which was held by a foreign power (the Turks). Since the 18th Century the Russians have hankered to possess the Bosporus and Dardanelles. When they tried to get them in 1854 the British, the French and later the Italians joined the Turks rather than...
...have to wait long to get them on the job. The Royal Air Force has plenty of pilots experienced in four-motored ships. And if the Flying Fortresses were delivered in Canada, they would need no help in hopping across the Atlantic. The 1,850-mile jump from Newfoundland to the nearest English airdrome would be just a good workout for the Air Corps's sturdy Percherons...
...Received messages congratulating him on his escape from the palace bombings from the Duke of Windsor, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn, Governor of Newfoundland, and his War Cabinet...