National Affairs: The President's Week, Apr. 7, 1941

Last week the President, in absentia: >Submitted to Congress for its information an agreement, a protocol and an exchange of notes signed in London by plenipotentiaries of the U. S. and Great Britain. The agreement formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430...

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