Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa class under construction, a naval war with Japan is out of the question because of the distance consideration. Which brings me to your first error, your horrible selection of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard as an example. Your position is that Jones, without a naval base, brought the war to the British Coast and that therefore the distance viewpoint is not 100% accurate. The plain fact is that John Paul Jones operated out of a French base, Brest. France was then at war with England also. His ship was actually an old French merchant ship, his three...
...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...
...island exports of rum, bananas, sugar, pineapples had all but stopped. A British fleet of unknown size patrolled the nearby waters-carefully avoiding the appearance of a blockade, making certain that French warships would not streak for home, watching for signs of a Nazi attempt to establish a submarine base on the island. Somewhere nearby, destroyers of the U.S. neutrality patrol also hovered watchfully. Thus quietly time passed on an American island now nominally ruled by the new totalitarian Government of France, which is in turn subservient to the totalitarian Government of Europe...
...politics. In South America, Nazi thought and Nazi organization already bubble above the political surface, in Uruguay, in Brazil, in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia. Prodded by its own businessmen, pressed by German traders and diplomatic experts, South America might well become an armed threat to the U. S., a base for launching an invasion of North America up the stepladder of the Caribbean islands with a drive to the flank to close the Panama Canal...
...southern boundaries of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador the problems of the U. S. increase in direct proportion to the distance from Washington. Dominated by the ABC republics (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), this area lies beyond the zone of U. S. military and naval effectiveness, is consequently less willing to base its economic and political future on U. S. protection...