Show Hudson Bay day Forms Open Back Door For Attack on U. U S. S Writer Says I I NEW YORK North UPI North America AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica can be attacked tomorrow Canada nada can be smashed Into helplessness helplessness helplessness help help- at one blow The United States could hardly be quickly vanquished vanquished van van- but her boasted security is nothing but empty confidence that could be exploded with terrifying terrifying terrifying terri terri- consequences and this may happen with the next rising of the sun This Jeremiad Is preached by bya H. H I. I Dyson Carter a Winnipeg consulting consultIng consulting consult consult- ing engineer and author in Sea of Destiny just published The sea he speaks of is Hudson bay which he calls Americas America's back backdoor backdoor backdoor door wide open and Inviting any enemy Says Saya Experts Agree Carters Carter's book Is based upon personal personal personal per per- observation and study but buthe buthe buthe he says experts have agreed on many of his conclusions Hudson bay he says is the sea and the coast our admirals forgot on paper Hudson bay Is the perfect attack base from which raiders can paralyze the nerve centers of all eastern and mid- mid continental America East west and south we are secure provided our one-ocean one navy is not divided by a double attack But the northern sea with witha a coastline that is as long as Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic or Pacific shores Is defended by an ice-breaker ice and a policeman's policeman's policeman's police police- mans man's revolver Points Peril In North Carter says hostile craft loaded with knocked knocked down down airplanes could enter Hudson strait with I Ino no opposition whatever close the strait and establish bases for assembly assembly assembly as as- of the planes At what home base would the enemy outfit such an expedition In n time of war By what route would the ships reach Hudson strait evading the allied patrol inthe in inthe inthe the ocean approaches Such questions contends Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter are those of a naive naval college cadet of one unacquainted with the history of the World war and with subsequent world political political political poli poli- developments How was the German navy able to io maintain secret submarine refueling refueling refueling re re- re- re fueling and restocking bases in every ocean during the entire four years fears of the first struggle and long ong after German warships had been jeen scoured from the seas How Hows Is s it possible for Hitler's undersea fleet to repeat that history now Two Elementary Truths Two elementary truths are suf suf- The oceans of the world are very large international fascism has las powerful friends in the most unexpected places Carters Carter's book w was s written before Germany invaded invade Denmark and GREENLAND MILES BOMBING TIME BASED ON MPH l ES ATLANTIC YF l OCEAN fly An a w iJ C Q A N fi or 0 e QUEBEC p HOUR 2 M OTTAWA 0 eQ STPAUL y Ob RS 0 4 NEW OMAHA CHICAGO CINCINNATI a p e UNITED STATES Modern bombers based on Hudson bay could range over this area Author H. H D. D Carter says the waters are open the year around Hudson Bay is the worlds world's second largest sea largest mediterranean It lies no farther north than the British British British Brit Brit- ish Isles or Scandinavia Norway It is made more thought- thought provoking by the fact that Gre Greenland Greenland Green Green- n- n land a Danish colony is within easy striking distance of North America President R Roo Roosevelt o o s e eve v e I 1 t t. t Carter points out promised to defend Canada with all of the resources at his command should the dominion dominion dominion do do- minion ever be threatened But the truth is that the United States could no more rush to the defense of Canada than to the defense of her own Pacific coast if that coast had no fleet no planes and not a single shore battery Carters Carter's Conclusions As to steps that should be taken to lessen the menace of Americas America's fourth coastline Carter suggests 1 Seal Hudson straith with mines during the winter months 2 Erect coastal fortifications at two or three strategic points facing the entrance channels 3 Assign a squadron of suitably armed ships to permanent patrol and antisubmarine duty in the approaches approaches approaches ap ap- ap- ap to Hudson strait 4 Establish extensive air patrols throughout the coastal and inland regions 5 Set up a chain of air bases south of the uninhabited northland and fringing the settled regions of Canada where large fleets of the fastest attack ships can be held in readiness for alarm from the northern patrols |