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...Allies' front line now encircles the globe. It is hinged on a half dozen great naval fortresses: Britain, Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore, Pearl Harbor, Panama. These fortresses are the key points in the Allies' mobility, vitally necessary if the Allies are to continue helping each other fight on farflung battlefields. By breaking any two of those key points (see below), the Axis could virtually cut hemisphere from hemisphere...
...London Daily Mirror Correspondent David Walker Such E. Phillips Oppenheimish apprehensions were commonplace realities last week among Europe's chief neutrals. The world waited to see whether Adolf Hitler, balked in Russia, would strike massively through Turkey at Suez and the Near East, or through Spain and Portugal at Northwest Africa. Both courses had their prophets. The prosecution of both at once was possible...
...Turkey was scared stiff at concentrations of troops in Bulgaria. Turkey issued a declaration of neutrality, but was wavering. The capitulation or conquest of Turkey would be the signal for a flanking attack on Suez, probably an assault on Alexandria from...
...Britain's only uneasiness about the defense of the Singapore area last week was that the U.S. Fleet was not there. Even without it, Singapore (like Suez, which was also split away from its complementary force at Gibraltar) looked like anything but a doormat with Welcome...
...Elements of Naval Warfare" fills a large auditorium in the St. Paul Science Museum. Twelve globe sections, seven and a half feet in diameter, are ranged around the auditorium walls, show phases of American naval strategy and problems, the major strategic bottlenecks of the world (Windward Passage, Panama, Gibraltar, Suez, Malay Straits, English Channel, Skagerrak, Kattegat). A huge revolving globe (Dr. Powell believes most people get wrong ideas of distance from looking at flat maps) shows the principal trade routes of the world. In the center of the auditorium, spread out on a huge table, are model ships...