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WE ARE GAINING THE
UPPER HAND
PEOPLE who have seen the
recently have been shocked and
WHAT BASES
THE MEAN
By Rear Admiral Yatos Stirling Jr. U.S.N. (Retired) United Press. Naval Critic
It is gratifying that the United States at last. is learning of the vital nocossity for bases in strato. gically important defence aroas.
A cardinal principle of sen seizure, is difficult to imagine, power is that naval and air bases In an emergency this method are key factors in naval might be used.. strength. Until Intely. the
When considering Britain's
United States has neglected that offer of bases n number of principle.
points come up for speculation: The only first class naval buse Shall we share these bases with outside the United States' con- the British Empire? Would tinental limits is the one at Pearl that change our neutral status Harbour, Hawaii. This buse 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 buses on leased territory be used by only our
Should
1. 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?
nc-
Figuratively speaking, basea
Our avowed policy is to are spots from which to launch
prevent any invasion of the offensive weapons against an Western Hemisphère. In enemy. Once sent from the
quiring such bases from Great base, as projectiles, they.com Britain do we not tacitly enter operate and steam or fly for a
into an alliance with that Em- specific length of time, when pire for the purpose of defent-
ABNER
DEAN
SKY WRITING
Cope, 1944 added Faxiure Synthale, des
"I've hired an assistant for you... to help with the spelling!"
ERNEST BEVIN
His Stocks are Going Up
By C. T. Hallinan United Press Staff Correspondent
The star of Ernest Bovin, 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 <titly.
damage incurred through con- Considering the question of rising and predictions are that another year of war tact with an enemy or from the locations for bases, 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.
Thus, we see, a lack of bases in any area prohibits effective operations in that area.
ships, submarines and airplanes.
British mobilize
to remain
to
would appear that the base of the huge Transport Workers quested workers Newfoundland should be a first Union, was called in by Prime longer hours at their benches class one for the use of big Minister Winston Churchill to was such that it consolidated manpower, his position with the Govern-
In the defence of the North
A first class base should be labour and industry behind the ment and the country. American hemisphere prepara established, too,
nation's war machine.
As soon as production showed on Jumaica,
of tions for correctly located Bases Trinidad, or Curacao to take care
So well has he accomplished signs declining due 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 himself in British down on excessive overtime. He hurt by the pictures of devas step. The recent offer by Wins- auxiliary weapons, submarines Churchill 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 of such locations as Newfound- tanamo and Puerto Rico, might many. London-great stores as bare as sea shells, famous thorough-land, Barbadoes, Trinidad, et be secondary bases, primarily With a characteristic English where fares robbed of their land- focuses our attention upon the marks. Following the firet absence of properly fitted bases, reaction
comics the bracing outside of our continental limits thought. "Well, the people at for our navy and air force to home have been through this,
oppose an enemy from across the-pictures-have-been-released;
the Atlantic. Why can't I take it?" That is bracing, and in addition there. is the news in the daily papers of the four to one superiority
used by submarines and planes. At Colon, in the Canal Zone,
1
the regulations were
of mixture
downrightness, modified,
Within a few weeks Bevin persuasion, and finesse, Bevin, Minister of Labour and National reversed a programme which there should be a first class base
Service, is operating Great the World War governments for all arms of the navy.
Britain's first totalitarian ap- allow to sap national energies The-war-in Europe haa-proved paratus of state-and-the-first-and slow down-production:--- The terrible formidableness of
Bevin is believed responsible ☆
100 per cent. conscription of ✩
the bomber plane. We need a
manpower and womanpower. for persuading Churchill to issue Newfoundland is a well located great force of naval bombing i
Bevin's extensive powers, his solemn pledge that the end position from which to strike a sea planes, correctly based, in which never even existed in the of the war would see the end of naval expedition advancing by order that the entire coast line!
northern route while Bar- cf North America, the West days of the Lloyd George World all
War cabinet, were made possible liberty. and badoes and Trinidad are located Indies, and the northern part of
Second by
Emergency Bevin to-day holds a strutegic can be fully neutral appraisement of the to close up the passages through South America
Powers Act passed May 22 position in British public life. covered by flight from these
the following
Conservative if the next 12 months should be air bases.
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.
Our
displayed by Royal Air Force against the enemy.
Occasionally one rends in the
American press a
cuol
+
The British island of Jamaica
the
Power of Transfer Bevin can transfer any man
position. Frequently that ap- the Lesser Antilles leading to praisement contains another the Caribbean and the Panama shock; a weighing of the possi-
Canal. bilities of Britain being de- feated. It is a tribute to our
A concentration of our large confidence and moral (and we also is well located for a base naval bombers, accompanied by can afford just now to be ac- and should be included in the swift long distance fighting or woman to war work in any planes, will form a spearhead of part of the country. Magis- fleet trates may, and do, fine any enemy Naval bases for warships and attack
worker leaving his wartime job airplanes in Guantanamo, Puerto approaching American waters.
for another job or for rest andį recreation.
British offer,
011 1171
These attack air forces of ours
will be an important menace to the great surface warships of
He controls
1
wartime
curtailments of
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Stewardess Heroine
labour exchanges Of Attack
cused of conceit!) that we are still shocked by any considered expression of the view that we might be beaten in this defence of our native istes; that we shail Rico, Jamaica, together with be forced to withdraw to Canu- those in the Lesser Antilles, da: that the Royal Navy-that would enable the United States
an enemy fleet that will be ac. which operate the unemploy-
MISS COCKBURN, the heroic imperturbable bulwark of to command the Caribbean and companied by numerous supply ment insurance system. No un-
is among those steel-may be defeated.
maintain a watchful eye over ships and transports loaded with employed whose labour record is stewardess. 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-
steamer Highlander over Bevin has established com-Nazi bombers. concerned, the enemy has taken
than
.
The cost of a first class base, if we take as an example the one
dole.
the
the O.B.E.
Scaman
two
and
Miss
a terrific beating at our handsduction makes it vital that we
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 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 Q.B.E. punctured his ego over Berlin, The islands, of which Curacao probably can be built for ten always fought.
(Civil Division), and Fireman Bert George dropped uncomfortable loads of is one, owned by conquered million dollars to be used merely
The registered unemployed Whyman and Able-Seaman bombs into his choicest factor- ies, 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
How A first class base would require of the war from 1,500,000 to
William Birnet vasion from becoming more portant to our defence.
n threat. The Germans they can be obtained, except by five years to build, a secondary 500,000, and bottlenecks due to
brag about one year.
bour shortages are diminish Steward Laurence Smith. Halcrow
are commended, as well have had to change their plans
Probably three
Cockburn. hundred ing. completely. Hitler
now every resource in the Empire to
dollars wouk! bo There is some evidence that The London Gazelle, announcing acunomising 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 Bevin is conscripting skilled pro-Nazi bombers, attacked the High-
in the Atlantic. fessional chemists and engineerslander with machine-guns., Europe to guard oil fields and enough to pat ourselves on the required
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
One crashed on the ship, the her out of our)
They receive £7
tell in the sea. gaining more territory and is
hotise. We must now get ready great fleet authorized by. Con- factories. saving more planes.
Seaman Anderson, who is 23, was to drive him out of the back-gress by 1946 of seven hundred weekly.
An example of Bovin's policy neing when the first frakker was The answer that Britain will
devastating and one warships, we might woll Sunday's yard.
Another unner, who our in maintaining high production destroyed. sive is becoming clear with re- raida
Nazi-occupiot consider that they are cent remarks
from assault from among the workers was revealed had lost his brother through enemy In Parliament. Channel ports vividly show how security 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. took over and brought the second. effort this winter to garner' this tank,
made fairly safe.
in the war industrica.
'plane down,
terrible enemy
on
the
Tho
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