HAWAII BASE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 7

HAWAII BASE.

GREATEST IN WORLD

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. The Secretary of the Navy (Colonel Knox) told the Press that Hawaii would become one of the great military bastions of the world. At present the United States was expending 80,000,000 dollars there, which would make it one of the world’s most efficient and most compact armed bases. Pearl Harbour alone was N a unique base. There was plenty of room for a fleet twice the size of the present United States fleet. \ ' Six members of the Canada-United States Joint Defence Board have completed a preliminary survey of the west coast defences from Sitka, in Alaska, to the mouth of the Columbia River. Captain Harry Hill, the spokesman, said'they had reached perfect accord on the co-ordination of defences in the event of an emergency.

MR WILLKIE’S POLICY.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.

The Republican candidate for the Presidency (Mr Willkie) announced a six-point foreign and domestic policy. He said President Roosevelt must “bear a direct share of the responsibility for the present war/’ because he had not followed such a programme. The points were: (1) We must keep sending aid to Britain, our first line of defence and only remaining friend. (2) In the Pacific our best ends will be served by a strong, free and democratically progressive China. We should render economic assistance to that end.

(3) We must have an impregnable defence system. . (4) Revise industry. (5) Use credits and economic agreements wisely. (6) Explore, acquire and develop Pacific air bases.