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Distances have narrowed since 1895, when U. S. Secretary of State Richard Olney declared that 3,000 miles of ocean "make any permanent political union between a European and an American State unnatural and inexpedient." A tacit London-Washington Axis is already a fact. Many British subjects, and not so many U. S. citizens, hope the Axis may eventually become a Union. Clarence K. ("Union Now") Streit, who once advocated union of all the democracies, now advocates union of the U. S. and the British Empire, about all that are left...
...point the mainland of the territory is separated from the mainland of Asia only by the 62 miles of Bering Strait. Its outpost, Little Diomede Island in Bering Strait, is separated from Russian-owned Big Diomede by only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands, only 696 miles east of Japan's advance base on Paramosmiri Island, off the toe of Kamchatka. An airplane from any of these Asiatic strongholds can cross the international date line...
...huge canyons whose beds lie 7,500 to 10,000 ft. below sea level. How were they formed? Possibly by ancient rivers, when the seas were far below their present level. Geologists know that during the Ice Age, which began to recede some 20,000 years ago, the ocean level was lower than it is now, because great masses of water were locked up in the land glaciers. But the continents could hardly have stored water masses tremendous enough to have raised the sea level from one and a half to two miles. A theory held by some geologists...
King Cole makes his way by hitchhiking and has never had to pay a hotel bill, although he stops at the best, including the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. To cross the ocean, he has worked as a mess boy, steward, and cook. For his incidental expenses, the newsboy earns money peddling papers and writing feature articles about himself...
...Isolationism is nonsense. South, Central, and North America is vulnerable, not only to systematic pro-German propaganda and to economic penetration, but to direct armed attack. We ourselves sent 2,000,000 troops to Europe, in 1917-18. We have been twice invaded from Europe, when the Atlantic Ocean was much wider than it is now. It all depends on who commands the seas, and in the event of the destruction of the British fleet we lose that command, perhaps forever...