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U.S. CONSTRUCTING A “CARIBBEAN GIBRALTAR”

... U.S. CONSTRUCTING A “CARIBBEAN GIBRALTAR” THE defence policy of the United States in the Atlantic and the Caribbean aims at eventual but complete independence from the hitherto protecting arm of the British Navy. The United States has to take into account ...

Published: Wednesday 27 March 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 622 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO PRESIDENT Bases in for U.S

... TO PRESIDENT Bases in for U.S. discussed BACK from his trip, literally a flying trip to the Caribbean, the Duke of Windsor revealed to Pressmen that he had a long talk with President Roosevelt, in which the proposed defence bases in the West Indies were ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MORE U.S. SHIPS FOR BRITAIN

... Roosevelt is understood to have discussed the question shipping for Britain with responsible officials before leaving for Caribbean cruise. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMMONS STATEMENT

... President Roosevelt has allotted to the Army 24.000.000 dollars (£6.250.000) for its share of developing the Atlantic and Caribbean naval and air bases leased from Britain. The Na v y’s expenditure will be 50,000,000 dollars (£12.500,000). Army engineers ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

“Slate of emergency ’ in US, expected President studies output

... believe they will be signed at an early date. The President is understood to have been working during his cruise in the Caribbean on plans to ginger up United States’ defence production enable him to move quickly in accordance with national defence needs ...

Published: Monday 16 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE ELEPHANT FUEHRER DEAD rpHE Fuehrer of the biggest herd of circus elephants in the world Brahma, is dead. He

... Dumezil beat Aircraftman Church on points. • ROOSEVELLT’S DEFENCE TOUR President Roosevelt may leave on a 15-day tour of the Caribbean to inspect defences in the vicinity of Puerto Rico, including possibly the United States bases being established in the British ...

Published: Monday 02 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 272 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Roosevelt Reveals Big Plan For Panama Canal Defence

... long-range canal defence was well illustrated by a series of concentric circles which would extend over the western half of the Caribbean Sea on the east and up to and including Guatemala on the north, then out 600 miles into the Pacific on the west and to a ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 298 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Longer hours on supplies for

... States Fleet has left Hawaii and is on its way to the Panama canal to take up stations off the U.S. Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea. “ There is no unusual activity at Panama,” said an official at the U.S. War Department in Washington. The mines are ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 344 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMAN STEAMER CAPTURED BY DUTCH DESTROYER

... Heligoland, a German ship of 3.664. tons which was reported last October to be held in Puerto (Columbia) Harbour, on the Caribbean Sea owing to the mutiny of the crew has, it is claimed in Berlin, slipped through the British blockade and reached a German ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 438 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Another bases deal?

... be against repeal there are other possible solutions. Some ingenious minds have suggested that the British islands in the Caribbean Seas might provide one. These outposts form natural defensive bulwarks for trie United States and some feci that a deal by ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 428 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

INCREASE IN ROAD FATALITIES

... pedestrians. The number of fatalities on Aid for Britain: Roosevelt finds THE solution LOOKING bronzed and fit after his Caribbean cruise, cigarette holder in the corner of his mouth. President Roosevelt electrified 200 newspapermen at a Press conference ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 474 | Page: 1 | Tags: none