... arrived by air at Maracaibo. Last year General Marshall was made responsible for selecting sites for advance air bases in the Caribbean Sea zone. This is stated in a Reuter message received from Caracas. Venezuela. 200,000 Italians in Abyssinia There are now ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... troops —R ce^ t» sending overseas iff men beyond tho J tioned. (5) At the reque- Government . n military’ format assigned to Caribbean and C\j (6) No. 112 Al Zrbe% Squadron woUH* a overseas to act .jof No. 110 Co-of** already overseas(7) Every l>e adopted ...

... 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 ...

... reports published in the New York Daily News that the U.S. is preparing to send a naval expeditionary force to police the Caribbean Sea, and impose a trusteeship on French possessions. French naval vessels lying at Martinque would be de-militarised as the ...

... declared that the canal could not properly be defended by aircraft based on the canal itself. Colonel Knox also said that the Caribbean Sea should be made “an American lalte.” “Treasure island” The Galapagos Islands, owned by Ecuador, are about 500 miles west ...

... to be gathering in fegion of French possessions, but official quarters have no explanation. Neutrality from Key West, the Caribbean ftiission. Air re- have arrived at m t° co jj filled number of been observed steaming eastiu the Atlantic reports reacherican ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Economic chi U.S. on to ...

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