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WHAT BASES

October 22, 19407

THE MEAN

By Rear Admiral Yatos Stirling Jr. U.S.N. (Rotired) United Press Naval Critic

It is gratifying that the United States at last is learning of the vital necessity for bases in strato- gically important defence areas.

A cardinal principle of sea seizure, is difficult to imagine. power is that naval and air baxes in an emergency this method are key factors in naval might be used,

strength.

Until lately the 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 at 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 busca 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 operate and steam or fly for a into an alliance with that Em- specific length of time, when pire for the purpose of defeat-

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

12,4

SKY WRITING

Cope, 1948 by United Foulure Syndtonio, Ine

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ERNEST

BEVIN

His Stocks are Going Up

By C. T. Hallinan

United Press Staff Correspondent

The star of Ernest Bevin, 56-year-old trade they must return to a base for ing na tssault on our side of the unionist and Britain's home front dictator, is

refuelling and repairing of damage incurred through con-

ocean.

re-

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

Bovin, hard-handed boss of response received when he "would appear that the base of the huge Transport Workers quested workers remain Thus, we see, a lack of bases Newfoundland should be a first Union, was called in by Prime longer hours at their benches 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.

ships, submarines and airplanes. mobilize British manpower, his position with the Govern-

tinuous steaming and flying.

to

WE ARE GAINING THE

UPPER HAND

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, on Jamaica, nation's war machine.

As soon as production showed 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, Bovin 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 London-great stores as bare of such locations as Newfound- tanamo and Puerto Rico, might many.

force except in specific cases as sea shells, famous thorough-land, Barbadoes, Trinidad, etc., be secondary bases, primarily With a characteristic English where the regulations fares robbed of their land- focuses our attention upon the

used by submarines and planes.

mixture

downrightness, modified. marks. Following the first absence of properly fitted bases, reaction comes the bracing outside of our continental limits thought, "Well, the people at for our navy and air force to home have been through this, the pictures have been released.

-oppose-an-enemy-from-across. Why can't I take it?" That is] the Atlantic. bracing, and in addition there

is the news in the daily papers of the four to one superiority

of

were

At Colon, in the Canal Zone, persuasion, and finesse, Bevin, Within a few weeks Bevin Minister of Labour and National reversed a programme which there should be a first class base for all arms of the navy.

Service, is operating Great the World War governments Britain's-first--fotalitarian-ap--allow-to-sap-national-enorgies- The war in Europe has proved |

paratus of state and the first and slow, down production. the terrible formidableness of ☆ ✩ ☆

100 per cent. conscription of Bevin is believed responsible The bomber plane. We need a Newfoundland is a well located great force of naval bombing

manpower and womanpower.

for persuading Churchill to issue powers. his solemn pledge that the end displayed by our Royal Air position from which to, strike a seu planes, correctly based, in which never evén existed in the of the war would see the end of Force against the enemy.

naval expedition advancing by order that the entire coast line Occasionally one reads in the northern route while Bar- of North America, the West days of the Lloyd George World all wartime curtailments

War cabinet, were made possible liberty. cool and badoes and Trinidad are located Indies, and the northern part of neutral appraisement of the to close up the passages through South America can be fully position. Frequently that ap- the Lesser Antilles leading to covered by flight from these

air bases. pruisement contains another the Caribbean and the Panama shock; a weighing of the possi- Canal.

American press a

The British island of Jamaica

^

Bevin's extensive

of

by the Second Emergency 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.

Power of Transfer Bevin can transfer any man

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 cused of conceit!) that we are British offer.

planes, will form a spearhead of part of the country. Magis- still shocked by any considered

On an enemy fleet trates may, and do, fine any Naval bases for warships and attack

worker leaving his wartime job for another job or for rest and recreation.

| expression of the view that we airplanes in Guantanamo, Puerto approaching American waters.

might be beaten in this defence

bombs into his choicest factor-

These attack air forces of ours

will be an important menace to the great surface warships of

The cost of a first class base,

He controls labour exchanges

the

Stewardess Heroine Of Attack

the O.B.E,

#

the Highlander,

of our native isles; that, we shall Rico, Jamaica, together with be forced to withdraw to Cann- 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-

among those steel-may be defeated.

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, const 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-

dole..

steamer Highlander over two Bevin has established, com-Nazi bombers. concerned, the enemy has taken a terrific beating at our hands duction makes it vital that we if we take as an example the one

The master of 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 muss parades out of the skies, | hold, .

dollars. A secondary

base British trade unionists have Captain William Gifford, is appointed an additional officer of the O.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 dropped uncomfortable loads of is one, owned by conquered million dollars to be used merely The registered unemployed Whyman and Able-Seaman George 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 vasion from becoming mora portant to our defence. How A first class base would require of the war from 1,500,000 to

Seaman Willler Birncl and Smith Jinlcrow 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.

rbour shortages are diminish-Steward Laurence

are commended, as well 05 MIEK have had to change their plans

Cockburn, completely. Hitler is

Probably three hundred ing. now every resource in the Empire to

The London Garctie, announcing dollara economising with his air force enable us to take the offensive. million

would be There is some evidence that

awards, recalls how the two while he spreads it round From now on it is no longer sufficient to build the baacs Bevin is canscripting skilled pro-hese bombers attacked the High- Europe to guard ofl fields and enough to pat ourselves on the required

Atlantic.fessional chemists and engineerataruler with machine-guns.

Both were shot down. other strategie points. He is back for the way we have kept Having these bases and the, to serve as instructors in various

terrible enemy out of our

One crashed on the ship, the clher gaining more territory and is

fell in the rea, saving more planes.

house. We must now get ready great fleet authorized by Con- factories, to drive him out of the back-gress by 1946 of seven hundred weekly,

Seamon Anderson, who is 23, wOR The answer that Britain will

An example of Bovin's policy airing when the first ralder devastating and one warships, we might well yard. Sunday's " give is becoming clear with re- raids. on the Nazi-occupied consider that they are our in maintaining high production destroyed. Another gunner, cent 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.

mada fairly safe.

in the war industries. The took over and brought the second.

plane down; :

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