TIRRED to action by wars along both ers, the United Star rush ug to completion a tem of naval and military bases in an area covering millions of square miles of the globe.
In mid-P: ie. the Panama Canal area, Alask: the Caribbean along three coasts of the United States mainland, thousands of workmen are dredging harbours, constructing airfields. p pari gun emplacements and performing thousands of other tasks to make the United States, its territories and possessions and the other nations of the Western Hemisphere as secure as possible from ex~ ternal aggression.
Until a relatively short time civil authorities generally felt that the great Hawaiian base in the mid-Pacific, the existing defences in the Canal zone and the scattered mil Spotlight on Far °\Eastern Scene mainland were sufficient protection against almost any conceivable a gression.
A change in policy occurred with issuance of the now historic "Hepburn Board" report—a document prepared by a naval board head by Rear Admiral A. J. Hepburn recommending the establishment mere than 60 bases over a wide area,
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