Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany took Denmark, Adolf Hitler acquired (and emphatically disavowed) technical title to Denmark's Greenland-a vast (827,275 sq. mi.), arctic bloc only about 1,250 miles from northernmost Maine, well within the Monroe Doctrine's continental sphere. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers did not think the Nazis, with their already overtaxed fleet, could break past the British and use Greenland for a base during World...
...Added seven major ports to the European sea zone from which U. S. shipping and travelers are banned. U. S. vessels must now stay out of all Scandinavian waters up to the Arctic Circle, may go nowhere in Europe excepting Spain and Portugal on the Atlantic, a few neutral ports in the Mediterranean...
...Finland's naval forces in the North (as under the existing treaty of 1920) shall consist of not more than 15 armed ships of not more than 400 tons, though vessels of less than 100 tons are unrestricted. Finland's Arctic naval bases shall be proportionately small and on this coast Finland shall maintain no submarines, no armed aircraft...
...abuse of Norwegian waters to elude the Allied blockade must stop. While the grounded Altmark was refloated last week and Norway pondered whether to hand her back to Germany before getting Great Britain to agree to arbitrate the case, the Allies acted. East of the North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, off Finland's lost port of Petsamo and off Murmansk in Red Russia, an undetermined number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies...
...heart. Undaunted, he studied medicine, got a post as assistant surgeon in the Navy. He fell ill in China, was twice invalided home from the Mexican War, once with coast fever, again with wounds and raging typhus. Undaunted still, he went on an expedition in 1850 to search the Arctic for Sir John Franklin, who had been missing for five years. Later he was put in command of a second search party. Despite scurvy, dying dogs, desertions and a ship frozen in the ice pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time...