U.S.A. AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1944, Page 6

U.S.A. AFFAIRS

USE OF BASES

NEW YORK, January 19

Commenting on post-war policies;, the “New York Times’s” writer, MN Hanson Baldwin, says: Bases that are considered necessary to provide the minimum of protection lor the United States include all those bases that already are under our sovereignty, plus Trinidad, Bermuda and Newfoundaßid; also a base on the shoulder of Brazil, or Dakar in Africa; and also in the Pacific, Galapagos, the Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Mariana Islands. Moreover, major bases will probably be necessary at Truk' or Guam. If we enter the international policing system, it will also be necessary to arrange for the mutual use of all the bases of the participating Powers. For example, we require the facilities in Singapore, while the British might need those in Hawaii. PLANE PRODUCTION NEW YORK, January 18. The “Herald-Tribune” learns authoritatively that America will produce more than one hundred thousand planes in 1944. The number of heavy bombers will be increased by fifty percent., while the number of trainers and obsolete fighters will be sharply cut. Illustrating the soaring output, the information disclosed that four hundred planes were produced on January 17, which was 'ihe biggest day’s output in history,