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Keys to Windward Passage. The Caribbean hook consists of three areas which grow progressively more vulnerable from north to south. Northernmost and strongest is the stretch from the Strait of Florida to the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. Florida's Strait is full of 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...
...troop concentrations, coastal defense works, port facilities. They were widely scattered to give German squadron leaders practice in reaching numerous objectives, so that when mass raiding began it would be swift and accurate. But the first concentrations of attack were aimed at convoys in the Strait of Dover and at east-coast ports, closing of which to all British shipping, naval as well as merchant, was a prerequisite of invasion...
...region of greatest danger was the area opposite the narrow Strait of Dover, which German guns and air power seemingly made impassable for all but the lighter units of the British Navy. With only these light vessels to oppose them, this region obviously became the most tempting for a German landing...
This pragmatic decision drew indignant prose from New Dealer Eicher. His dissent: "No ingenuity can square it with the standards of the Act. . . . Corporate management that, without contract compulsion, voluntarily doffs its Mother Hubbard of untrammeled business action [meaning its preferred stock] and dons a strait jacket of shortly-maturing secured debt deserves and should expect searching examination into the justification for its policy." Eicher's dissent overlooked the fact that Atlas sits on both sides of the table in Ogden Corp.; that, from a practical standpoint, the deal is largely bookkeeping. But he was cleaving to an abstract...
...armistices. This announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...