Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Until the U. S. owns a two-ocean fleet-and such a fleet cannot be built in less than seven years-the Canal is the only insurance the U. S. has against leaving one of its coasts undefended against attack. If an enemy should succeed in blocking or capturing the Canal, that insurance would no longer exist. Hence the first paradox of U. S. strategy: the most vital point for the defense of the continental U. S. is an isthmus 1,300 miles south of Miami...
When a friendly and unthreatened British Fleet policed the Atlantic and made the Monroe Doctrine a working document, defense of the Panama Canal was a textbook subject. The only possible attack was from Japan in the Pacific, and Japan's No. 3 world Navy had to operate from too far away. Its long supply lines could be cut at will, even by an inferior Navy, from the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and, if the Japanese got past the great ocean fortress of Hawaii, by flanking attacks from the U. S. Pacific Coast...
Frontier. Instead of this remote danger of attack from the Pacific, there will be a new and far more serious danger from the Atlantic if Nazi Germany seizes or destroys Britain's Navy. The only route for an attacker crossing the Atlantic to strike at the Canal is through an area long regarded by most U. S. citizens as a source of rich commerce and a place for sunlit vacations: the Caribbean...
...shoals, has well-defined channels, is well within the range of aircraft operating from Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami, Pensacola and dozens of inland fields. To the east the 706 islands of the Bahamas protect it, forming a tactical screen, an ideal area for submarines, destroyers, advanced aircraft bases. Except for attack by an overwhelming naval force, the Florida passage is invulnerable. Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage. Commanding the passage is the U. S. Navy's leased...
...touring Europe as a Mormon missionary. Expelled from Germany because his gospel was believed to be disturbing the peace, he returned to the U. S. to found the Utah-Pacific Airlines and begin preaching another: the future of aviation. To Mr. Hinckley, a "formidable and salutary deterrent to air attack on this hemisphere" will be the 45,000 products of his program whom he hopes to turn out next year...