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...deal itself had been foreshadowed. In a speech at the dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park day before, the President said: "New bases must be established-and I think they will be established-to enable our fleet to defend our shores." Three weeks before, correspondents had already questioned him about the possibility of trading destroyers for bases, and Franklin Roosevelt had flatly denied any connection-but reporters know better than to believe him implicitly. What electrified the crowded roomful of correspondents was the audacity with which the deal was consummated: it would not be presented to Congress...
...develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until the U. S. has a two-ocean fleet, it faces the danger of surprise attack in whichever ocean is undefended...
...invasion of the Caribbean islands would be a direct threat to the Panama Canal and the mobility of the U. S. battle fleet. A successful invasion of the St. Lawrence Valley would bring the chief war resources of the U. S. -the industrial plants of the Boston -Cleveland -Pittsburgh -Philadelphia quadrilateral - within easy range of enemy bombers. Taking off from Montreal a 250-mile-an-hour bomber can be over Boston in 60 minutes, Buffalo in 75, Pittsburgh in two hours. Established on the line Montreal-Quebec, an invader in strength could move into the northeastern U. S. over...
...approach to the St. Lawrence from northern Europe is longer (2,750 mi.) and relatively easy for the U. S. fleet to intercept from Atlantic ports. The main danger of invasion of the St. Lawrence region rests on the possibility that an invader might gain naval dominance in the Atlantic...
...primary defense of the U. S. against such an attack is fleet control of the Atlantic. But if by superior naval force an invader got a foothold, he would be in bombing range of U. S. fields from Newfoundland on. Chief of the Army's strong points in New England is the new Northeast Air Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City...