BRITISH ISLANDS
WANTED BY UNITED STATES PROTECTION OF CANAL (United Press Assn.—Kite. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Feb. 24 A member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives, Mr James A. Shanley, in a speech, predicted that the United States would ask Britain for possession of the islands east of the Panama Canal and Ecuador for possession of the Galapagos group. He said: “We are getting stronger defences for these islands to protect the Canal.” The military commentator of the New York Times, Mr Hanson W. Baldwin, who, in describing the United States naval manoeuvres in the Caribean Sea, said: “It is common talk in naval circles that there is an unwritten, but none the less definite, agreement between the United States, Britain and the Netherlands permitting the use of Trinidad and Curacao by the United States Navy in the event of war.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21047, 26 February 1940, Page 11
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