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Early this week Franklin Roosevelt moved the U.S. squarely into the Battle of the Atlantic. In Reykjavik, U.S. naval forces had landed, and Iceland was in hand (see p. 17). From where they were New York was 3,900 miles away, but Norway's Nazi-occupied Bergen was only 1,800 miles, Scotland's port of Glasgow only 1,600 miles, and Berlin a mere 2,800 miles as the bomber flies. The Western Hemisphere had stretched once more. The President had taken another great step...
...leading almost 23 years ago. For the speaker was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The man who heard the Kaiser's words was a U.S. journalist, William Bayard Hale of the New York Times. They were aboard the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen, Norway, one July evening in 1908, and the Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised...
...Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser to Reporter Hale in the Bergen fjord...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
Culmination came with the 800-place banquet, held like most Hollywood shindigs in the Biltmore Hotel Bowl. NBC played host. Master of Ceremonies Rudy Vallee presented Comedians Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Fibber McGee & Molly (Jim and Marion Jordan), Bergen & McCarthy, George Jessel. He called upon NBC's President Niles Trammell, who ended by giving Benny two gold keys that would unlock any door in NBC's Manhattan or Hollywood headquarters...