Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, while Britain was busy heckling Germany with its V for Victory campaign, Dr. Goebbels & Co. counterattacked furiously on all radio propaganda fronts. From 54 stations, including powerful Zeesen in Germany and half a hundred servile transmitters scattered throughout occupied Europe from the North Cape to Athens, pliable local radiocasters were busy blatting Nazi propaganda...
Classic definition of the Western Hemisphere was a line drawn by Pope Alexander VI. confirmed in 1494 by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The line ran from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
Same day that President Roosevelt told Congress that the U.S. had moved into Iceland, the National Geographic Society gave out still another definition. The "arbitrary line" which is "generally accepted" by geographers, said the Society, is the 20th meridian, which runs squarely through Iceland, assigns Portugal's Cape Verde Islands and the Azores to the Western Hemisphere...
Prophecy. A few hours after President Roosevelt confirmed his Iceland story, Burt Wheeler said: "It won't be long before we will be occupying Dakar, the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands." The prophecy was quickly denied by Dr. Joāo Antonio de Bianchi, Portuguese Minister to the U. S. "Whoever tries to take our islands," said Dr. de Bianchi, "will get his fingers scalded...
...Washington worried Minister Dr. Joāo Antonio de Bianchi hurried around to the State Department to see Under Secretary Sumner Welles, then announced that he had received "definite assurances" that the U.S. would not try to seize the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands or any other Portuguese possessions. In a press conference Under Secretary Welles was less definite. The U.S., calmly observed Mr. Welles, has no desire to see any change of Portuguese sovereignty of the islands. Nevertheless, he added, President Roosevelt had stated that it was vital to American security that Atlantic outposts "remain in friendly hands...