BASES IN PACIFIC.
'PLAN FOR U.S. ACQUIREMENT. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. Senator King has introduced a Bill authorising me President to begin negotiations immediately to acquire by lease or purchase British possessions in the Pacific Ocean or bordering on it. In return the President would be authorised to extend loans and credits to Empire countries. The Bill also provides for a reduction of the British war debt and modifies the Johnson and Neutrality Acts to facilitate loans to Britain.
Senator King pointed out that the acquisition of fuses in the Pacific was intended to retaliate against Japan and strengthen the United States’s position against any further expansion. He praised the British resistance and said that the struggle was to preserve all Democracy. In war exercises the United States navy in collaboration with flic air wing successfully defended the Panama Canal zone against theoretical European bombers. The theory of the exercises is that the United States has defeated an Asiatic fleet and thence 'hastens to the canal for an attack by European units which have established bases op the South American coast and the Caribbean.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 7
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183BASES IN PACIFIC. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 261, 2 October 1940, Page 7
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