Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army proved that transpolar air war was possible when it flew the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat over the Arctic from...
Some sensitive souls insisted on thinking that the new U.S.-Canadian defense agreement (TIME, Feb. 24) was something it was not. Moscow's Izvestia said the agreement had "clearly aggressive characteristics." A Moscow radio commentator cried: "There are [U.S.] troops everywhere [in the Arctic], and in such places as ... Churchill they experiment with jet-propelled planes." Such sniping was not confined to Russia. Saskatchewan's socialist Agriculture Minister Isidore Nollet, U.S.-born and a U.S. veteran of World War I, complained that there were U.S. troops stationed at North Battleford, Sask., and that they should be told...
...Bases. With an eye on Russia, which has rumbled about U.S. "imperialism" in the Arctic, the Prime Minister carefully noted that the U.S. has not asked for Canadian bases. But military men in both the U.S. and Canada were quite sure that a network of Arctic radar listening posts and weather stations, at least, would be established and jointly manned by both nations...
...were angered, by Mr. King's announcement. Actually, U.S. and Canadian military men have been working together all along. Since war's end the armed forces of both nations have been experimenting to see how machines would function and how men could live and fight in the Arctic. The Canadian Army's "Musk-Ox" expedition (TIME, Feb. 25, 1946), on which U.S. observers went along, was one test. So was the U.S. "Operation Frostbite"-the northern trip of the aircraft carrier Midway, which carried a Canadian observer. The U.S.Army's midwinter tests of men and machines...
...Canadians, whose sovereignty would be involved in any joint Arctic establishments, took the news of the agreement calmly. In Moscow, the New Times, as expected, squawked that the U.S. was "turning Canada . . . into its own military base." But many Canadians thought that the trouble with the agreement was that it did not go far enough. Said the Montreal Star: "Whether the U.S. seeks bases or not, no effective defense arrangements can be made without bases. There can and should be bases manned and operated by the two countries in collaboration...