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WHAT BASES
THE MEAN
By Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr. U.S.N. (Retired) United Press Naval Critic
It is gratifying that the United States at last is learning of the vital necessity for bases in strate- gically important defence areas.
A cardinal principle of sen seizure, la difficult to imagine. power is that naval and air bases In an emergency this method
naval might be used.
are
key factors in
the Until lately strength.
When considering Britain's
United States has neglected that offer of bases a number of principle.
points come up for speculation:
The only first class naval base Shall we share these bases with outside the United States' con- "the British Empire? Would tinental limits is the one nt Pearl that change our neutral status Harbour, Hawaii. This base has to something else?
cost over a hundred million dollars, for the navy's part alone,
A second class naval base is now being built in Puerto Rico.
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Will these bakes on leased territory be used by only our Should
It must be recognized that ships and airplanes? bases for warships and for air. the islands be attacked by an planes are indispensible where enemy fleet or air force, because of its British sovereignty, hostile naval operations may be
would we take part in defensive expected.
operation?
Figuratively speaking, bases
Our avowed policy is to are spots from which to launch
prevent any invasion of the offensive weapons against an
Western Hemisphere. In ac- enemy. Once sent from the
quiring such bases from Great base, as projectiles, they can Britain do we not tacitly enter
Hongkong Telegraph. operate and steam or fly for a into an alliance with that Em-
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ERNEST
BEVIN
His Stocks are Going Up
By C. T. Hallinan
United Press Staff Correspondent
specific length of time, when pire for the purpose of defeat-
The star of Ernest Bevin, 56-year-old trade they must return to a base for ing an assault on our side of the unionist and Britain's home front dictator, is refuelling and repairing of ocean. damage incurred through con-
In the defence of the North American hemisphere prepara
were
Considering the question of rising and predictions are that another year of war tact with an enemy or from the locations for buses, after the may catapult him into even greater prominence. ordinary wear and tear of con- legal part. has been settled, it
Bevin, hard-handed boss of response received when he re- tinuous steaming and flying.
to remain would appear that the base of the huge Transport Workers quested workers Thus, we see, a lack of bases Newfoundland should be a first Union, was called in by Prime longer hours at their benchés in any area prohibits effective class one for the use of big Minister Winston Churchill to was such that it consolidated operations in that area. WE ARE GAINING THE
ships, submarines and airplanes. mobilize British manpower, his position with the Govem-
UPPER HAND
A first class base should be labour and industry behind the ment and the country. established, too,
nation's war machine.
As soon as production showed on Jamaica, PEOPLE who have seen the tions for correctly located bases Trinidad, or Curacao to take care
So well has he accomplished signs of declining due to. news films at the local theatres are a most important advanced of the fleet and its important that task that he stands next to workers' fatigue, Bevin shut recently have been shocked and hurt by the pictures of devas- step. The recent offer by Wins auxiliary weapons, submarines Churchill himself in British down on excessive overtime. He tation wrought in their beloved ton Churchill of 99 year leases and airplanes, Barbadoes, Guan-public life in the opinion of restored the factory laws to full force except in specific cases bare of such locations as Newfound-
tanamo and Puerto Rico, might many. as sea shells, famous thorough-land, Barbadoes, Trinidad, etc, be secondary bases, primarily With a characteristic English where the regulations fares robbed of their Innd focuses our attention upon the
used by submarines and planes. mixture of downrightness, modified, marks. Following the first absence of properly fitted bases,
At Colon, in the Canal Zone, reaction comes the bracing outside of our continental limits
there should be a first class base) thought. "Well, the people at for our navy and air force to
for all arms of the navy. home have been through this,
oppose an enemy from across -the-pictures-have-been-released.
The-war-in-Europe-has-proved- Why can't. I take it?" That is
the Atlantic.
the terrible formidableness of bracing, and in addition there!
* ☆
the bomber plane. We need a is the news in the daily papers
Newfoundland is a well located great force of naval bombing of the four to one superiority displayed by
our Royal Air position from which to strike a sea planes, correctly based, in Force against the enemy.
naval expedition advancing by order that the entire coast line! Occasionally one reads in the a northern route while Bar of North America, the West cool and badves and Trinidad are located Indles, and the northern part of neutral appraisement of the to close up the passages through South America can be fully covered by flight from these position. Frequently that ap- the Lesser Antilles leading to
air bases. contains praisement
another the Caribbean and the Panama shock; a weighing of the possi-
Canal. bilities of Britain being de- It is a tribute to our fented,
American
# press
expression of the view that we
might be beaten in this defence. of our native isles; that we shall be forced to withdraw to Cana- da; that the Royal Navy-that heroic imperturbable bulwark of steel-may be defeated.
The British island of Jamaica
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Within a few weeks Bevin persuasion, and finesse, Bevin, Minister of Labour and National reversed a programme which Service, is operating Great the World War governments Britain's first totalitarian ap- allow to sap national energies paratus of state and the first and slow down production.
Bevin is believed responsible 100 per cent. conscription of manpower and womanpower. for persuading Churchill to issue Bevin's extensive powers, his solemn pledge that the end which never even existed in the of the war would see the end of days of the Lloyd George World all wartime curtailments of War cabinet, were made possible liberty. by
Second Emergency the
Bevin to-day holds a strategic Powers Act passed May 22 position in British public life. following the Conservative if the next 12 months should be Party's revolt against former as fruitful of big events as the Premier Neville Chamberlain.
past, people assume that he will become an even more important figure in Britain's destinies.
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Power of Transfer A concentration of our large
Bevin can transfer any man. confidence and moral (and we also is well located for a base naval bombers, accompanied by
distance fighting or woman to war work in any, can afford just now to be ac- and should be included in the swift long
Magis- cused of conceit!) that we are British offer.
planes, will form a 'spearhead of part of the country. still shocked by any considered
A enemy fleet trates may, and do, fine any Naval bases for warships and attack
worker leaving his wartime job airplanes in Guantanamo, Puerto "pproaching American waters.
These attack air forces of ours for another job or for rest and
recreation. Rico, Jamaica, together with those in the Lesser Antilles, will be an important menace to
the great surface warships of He controls labour exchanges would enable the United States an enemy fleet that will be ne- which operate the unemploy
MISS COCKBURN, the to command the Caribbean and companied by numerous supply ment insurance system. No un-
among those maintain a watchful eye over ships and transports loaded with employed whose labour record is stewardess, is There can be little doubt that the north coast of South troops.
unsatisfactory may receive his "commended for good services" in the victory of the British as far as military objectives are America, whose great oil pro-
The cost of a first class base,
steamer Highlander over two concerned, the enemy has taken
Bovin has established com-Nazi bombers. a terrific beating at our hands duction makes it vital that we if we take as an example the one
The master of the Highlander, in the air. We have blasted his permit no enemy to gain a foot. at Pearl Harbour, would be up-pulsory arbitration of labour dis- wards of seventy-five million putes, something which the mass parades out of the skies, hold.
dollars. A secondary
base British trade unionists have Captain William Gifford, is appointed
an additional officer of the punctured his ego over Berlin, The islands, of which Curacao probably can be built for ten always fought.
(Civil Division), and Fireman Bert dropped uncomfortable loads of is one, owned by conquered million dollars to be used merely The registered unemployed Whyman and Able-Seamon George bombs into his choicest factor- les, and kept the threat of in- Holland, also form a position im- by submarines and airplanes, have fallen since the outbreak Anderson, are awarded the medal of portant to our defence. How A first class base would require of the war from 1,500,000 to vasion from becoming
Birnel and Smith Halcrow than a threat. The Germans they can be obtained, except by five years to build, a secondary 500,000, and bottlenecks due to
base about one year.
l:bour shortages are diminish-Steward Laurence
are commended, as well as Miss. have had to change their plans
Cockburn, is
Probably three hundred} ing. completely. Hitler
now every resource in the Empire to,
dollars would be There is some evidence that The London Gazette, announcing economising with his air force enable us to take the offensive, million
these awards, recalls how the two while, he spreads it round From now on it is no longer sufficient to build the bases Bovin is conscripting skilled pro-Nazi bombers attacked the High-
the Atlantic. fessional chemists and engineerslander with machine-guns. Europe to guard oil fields and enough to pat ourselves on the required in
Both were shot down. other strategic points. He is back for the way we have kept Having these bases and the to serve as instructors in various gaining more territory and is terrible enemy out of our great fleet authorized by Con- factories. They receive £7 One crashed on the ship, the raher saving more planes.
to drive him out of the back-gress by 1946 of seven hundred weekly.
Seaman Anderson, who is 23, was firat ralder was An example af Bevin's policy aring when the The answer that Britain will
yard. Sunday's devastating and one warships, we might well
Another gunner, who our in maintaining high production destroyed. give is becoming clear with re- raids on the Nazi-occupied consider that they are cant remarks in Parliament. Channel ports vividly show how security from assault from among the workers was revealed had lost his brother through enemy We must make an unsurpassed our Air Force is setting about across the Atlantic has been in the matters of overtime hours action at sea six weeks before then, offort this winter to garner this tasks.
made fairly safe.
in the war industries. The
more
house. We must now get ready.
the O.B.E.
Seaman
fell in the zen.
William
took over and brought the second. plane down.