Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last phrase was Rooseveltian in the first degree. It might technically include Dakar, Cape Verde Islands or the Azores, although the President had told his visitors the night before that such was not the case. Looking ahead, some speculative analysts thought there might be a time when some port in Eire would also be "a strategic outpost," would also be occupied by the U.S. Navy as a U.S. base...
...German occupation of the Cape Verde Islands...
...still far behind the Nazis in materiel, especially anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns and tanks. Moreover, he pointed out that while the Nazi armament bases are only a few days from the Middle East, the British must send most of their weapons, including crated airplanes, around the Cape of Good Hope-thus keeping them "out of action for the best part of three months." Apparently the British command had judged it unwise to spare for so long a time many of the weapons which might have fortified Crete. There was little to cheer about in this revelation...
...interest of the Germans is to avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that preventive occupation of the Azores and the Cape Verdes, or the garrisoning of Iceland will be ordered in the near future...
According to unofficial reports reaching the State Department this week, the 4,999-ton Robin Moor, bound from New York for Cape Town with eight passengers and a crew of 35, was "torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine" in the South Atlantic May 21. A Brazilian ship rescued eleven survivors adrift 18 days in a lifeboat. If the reports were correct, this was the first U.S. ship torpedoed in World...