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...Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French Guinea, Gambia (British, with the harbor of Bathurst) and Sénégal (with Dakar, the French base on Africa's westernmost shoulder-point). Gabon is about equidistant (2,000 mi.) from Dakar and Cape Town...
...Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
...connected with the mainland by a narrow strip of land. To a defender it is valuable as a base for ranging out to sea against an invader, flanking him if he gets through and tries to enter the St. Lawrence. For an invader once established, Halifax is only 369 mi. from Boston, has a Royal Canadian Air Force field at Dartmouth from which land-based aircraft could operate. There are also land-plane fields at Truro, Halifax and Yarmouth, across the Bay of Fundy from Franklin Roosevelt's summer vacation spot at Campobello Island. (North of Halifax...
...Lawrence would be even more serious for the U. S. than an invasion of the Carib bean, it is also more difficult for an enemy to undertake. The sea route to South America and the Caribbean from Africa or the Azores is short (2,500 or 2,250 mi.), favored by fair weather and relatively difficult for the U. S. to patrol from its bases many hundreds of miles away...
...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...