TY - GEN TI - Air and naval bases KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Military bases, American KW - West Indies, British KW - fast KW - West Indies KW - British West Indies N1 - Includes ". . . historic documents relating to the leasing from Britain of air and naval bases." 1. President Roosevelt's message to Congress, September 3, 1940, 2. the Lothian Note to Hull ( letter dated September 2, 1940 from the British ambassador to the United States, Lord Lothian, to the Secretary of State of the United States Cordell Hull) and 3. Secretary Hull's reply ER -