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...said he, had acquired from the British Government the right to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland. Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana. The Newfoundland and Bermuda bases were gifts, "gratefully received." In return for the other bases, the U. S. had given England 50 overage U. S destroyers. He called it "epochal...
That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...
...which widens out into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust to the south an invader would have to hold the Montreal-Quebec line as well as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to protect his supply line...
...have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada by air raids on their industrial plants, hydroelectric stations (the chief of which are shown on the map by dams) and on the rail network...
...primary defense of the U. S. against such an attack is fleet control of the Atlantic. But if by superior naval force an invader got a foothold, he would be in bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City...