Charlestown, Sept. 4. President Roosevelt intimated yesterday that the agreement whereby the United States gains air and naval bases in British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, may lead to the acquisition of additional United States defence bases in the Western Hemisphere. I
Reporters speculated on the possibility of obtaining bases in Greenland and the Dutch and French possessions in the Western Hemisphere, but the President warned them not to guess too freely.
He said work on the new bases would start soon after the geographic cal locations had been designated by a joint board.
President Roosevelt assumed an unprecedented. personal responsibility When he threw a mighty segment of United States naval power into Britain's balance in return for new bastions of defence in the Western Hemisphere.
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