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of each other, clear to the coast of Asia.  These islands are either in the possession of or entirely dominated by Great Britain.  The only land encountered between Panama and the Kingman Reef is Clipperton Island, about nineteen hundred miles west of Panama and claimed both by France and the Republic of Mexico.  (The United States should acquire this at once).  Roughly, then, England, through her foothold on these islands, combined with her air and sea power, should be able to control about one-half of the base of the triangle.  This, in turn, joined up to her base, Singapore-New Zealand, covers all the rest of the Pacific Ocean.  Proceeding north from the Kingman Reef, which may be regarded for our purposes as the middle of the equatorial Pacific, we encounter the Hawaiian Islands over an expanse of a little more than a thousand miles of open sea.  (It was this route that the early Polynesian navigators followed in their voyages from the south seas to the Hawaiian Archipelago.) From the mainland of North America the Hawaiian Islands are barely more than two thousand miles.  In themselves they are very highly developed and capable of any sort of military expansion.  Proceeding in turn north from Hawaii a distance of about twenty-five hundred miles we encounter the Alaskan Peninsula, a part of the continent of North America.  One thousand miles north brings us to the

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