The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-06

he told the Senate Foreign could not conceive of anyone through South America; that 1t was '9nysterical imagination" to think of Canada and the United States be- ing driven from Newfoundland, and that in the Pacific we are protected by wide expanses of ocean and strong, strategic bases.
 ''It is fantastic to suggest that we are in any danger of attack he said. 'Even if we did not have these overwhelming strategical advantages, this panic over possible German attack would not be justified"
 Mccormick was invited 70 testify at hearings on the British-Aid bill by Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Republi- can, California. He is opposed to the pending bill but did not mention 1t in his prepared statement. He will be followed today by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh.
 Ruined Men, of War
 Mccormick spoke of the ruined men" of the last war, many of whom, he said, "are still in hospitals, or are suffering on their modest govern ment compensation"
 Nobody ever gives ball or 8 cock tail part for them," he said.
 There are young men of the same stripe today who, if forced to war abroad, will fight as the old army fought, and suffer as the old army is suffering.
 T pray to God that hysteria, propaganda and ambition will not become strong enough to immolate our present generation of young men,"
 He said he had accepted the in- vttation to appear before the com mittee to answer those who have mentioned the danger of attack on the United States through South America. He said he had personal knowledge" of considerable part of the ground over which such an attack would come and second hand information of the most reli- able kind" about the rest of it.
 Route For Germany
 He traced in detail on his map the route over which he said Ger many would have to travel if it were to attack the United States through South America.
 He said it would be utterly im- practicable" for Germany to con- centrate a force of any size at Daloar, the westernmost point of Africa. But assuming that a Ger man Air Force reached Dakar, he said, it still would be 1920 miles to Natal, Brazil, in South America.
 If an air force had advanced that far (NataD," he said, 'it would now have a line of supplies 800 miles through hostile France, on good roads; $500 miles across the noun tain, desert and jungle of Africa; and then 1920 miles by air across the Atlantic Ocean.
 Prom Natal to Georgetown, our fartheSt southern flying base, is 2,OOO miles over Brazilian equatorial jungle. To reach Georgetown, the German air force would have to travel over 1900 miles to meet our own air force, amply supplies with it's line of communications through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, protected by our West Indies possessions. Our pilots would be rested and our engines unworn.
 No Fear of Attack
 T cannot conceive of anyone having the slightest fear of an att tack along this line, if he has any respect at all for our won air force."
 He then recounted the difficulties of moving an air force from Europe to Newfoundland, distance of $500 miles from Germany, on which Is a Great Canadian-Brit- ish air base, and lon which) our own soldiers have already landed"
 Supplies would easily reach New l foundland by the St. Lawrence, immune from interruption, while any assailant crossing the ocean would be subject to attack from the air. on the water, and from sub- marines" he said.
 "It is an hysterical imagination which can conceive of our being | driven from Newfoundland. Even | fl we were, the enemy could find no supplies in that barren land. There would be Cabot Strait to cross and the Gut of Canso, Nova Scotia | is a peninsula with narrow neck, and New Brunswick largely forest and mushkeag.
 Can anyone dream of an enemy |