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...soon the U. S. would have a chain of well defended bases in the Atlantic and Caribbean. But they did mean that action was getting under way, and they implied that of all the chain of southern defense sites-not only those leased from Britain but those at Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Canal Zone (see map, p. 21)-Trinidad's development stood high on the list of priorities...
...training had left its unmistakable mark on the men of the First, and the First had left its mark on the camp site at Guantanamo, as Marines have long marked the remote places on the Caribbean. Last week a U.S. civilian airplane pilot, crossing the water between Puerto Rico and the island of Vieques, looked for the pasture emergency field there. He had no trouble finding it. On the side of a hill his eye caught the red, white & blue of a huge stone U.S. flag alongside the globe & anchor of the Corps emblem. A legend ran across the hill...
Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico "Oh, To Be in England" Sirs: I wonder if you have yet heard the story about the English schoolteacher who was testing the children on English poetry...
...Coast Guard boarding parties, working in perfect liaison with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, struck suddenly and efficiently in 17 U. S. ports, San Juan, Puerto Rico and Cristobal, Canal Zone. Seized were 28 Italian, two German, 36 Danish ships; total tonnage: 300,000. Twenty of the Italian ships, it was found, had been "put completely out of action." Rods and shafts had been cut with acetylene torches, engines and equipment wrecked with sledge hammers, bearings chiseled, bulwarks pried down with crowbars, boilers burned out, movable equipment dismantled. At Norfolk the blue-jacketed guardsmen caught one Italian...
...lower house. Last month Muñoz Marin's party took office and he was elected president of the Senate. Also on hand was the new Governor, Pennsylvania's Guy Swope. There was no doubt of the immensity of Muñoz Marin's task: Puerto Rico's sugar industry is depressed, her coffee trade war-killed, her population problem acute, her living costs high, labor restless (although the U. S. is spending $40,000,000 for defense in Puerto Rico). One of Muñoz Marin's first tasks was to listen to complaints...