ARMY & NAVY: Wart on the Pacific

ARMY & NAVY

Few thought seriously of a rearmament program last year when Congress ordered the Navy Department to report on the need for new naval bases. Early this month when Congress got that report, everyone had heard plenty about rearmament. And last week one item on that program raised a major question of policy.

Geographic nub of the system of 23 new or expanded bases in the Pacific outlined by the Navy is the Island of Guam. A glance at the geography of the Pacific (see map} is enough to tell anyone why that...

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