Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After several days' silence, Secretary of State Cordell Hull let it be known that U. S. naval vessels and patrol plane were engaging in "scheduled exercises" near Martinique (see p. 17). Soon afterward he got a reassuring answer from Petain. At Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy...
...With a total population of 125,000,000, Latin America can muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen of the 20 countries have air forces. The aggregate Latin-American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy...
Major Malcolm Stewart, U. S. A. Nicaragua's Army numbers 3,538, with 4,000 reserves. The U. S. has a military adviser there. Nicaragua also has a tiny Air Force and a handful of naval patrol boats (largest, 37 tons). Costa Rica has a standing Army of 339 men, Panama none...
...Navy of 2,000 men, manning two escort ships, five gunboats, an armed transport and six coast-guard ships. Air Force: 116 men, 16 planes. The Dominican Republic's Army, trained by the U. S. Army and Marines, numbers 3,300 men; its Navy consists of four coastal patrol boats and a transport. Haiti has an armed constabulary (Garde d'Haiti) of 2,494 men with U. S. advisers. She has two coastal patrol ships and no Air Force...
...with 400,000 in reserve. She has an Air Force of 90 planes. The Colombian Navy was reorganized in 1934 by retired British officers, now is advised by a U. S. mission, as is the Army. The Navy consists of two new destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent...