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...Spain the Naziphile Falange began recruiting "volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian Nazis, in Finland, said the Nazis. Vichy broke off relations with Russia. Sweden granted Germany the right to transport troops from Norway to Finland...
Last week the northwesternmost outpost of Europe moved a little closer to the U.S. By vote of its 1,011-year-old Althing ("Grandmother of Parliaments"), Iceland cut its last ties with Nazi-ruled Denmark, renounced the sovereignty of Danish Christian X, moved to establish a republic...
...question of U.S. intervention in the war rode clamorously into Congress last week on the back of the Ship Seizure Bill. The bill gave the President authority to purchase or lease some 500,000 tons of Danish, Italian, French, German, Belgian, Rumanian, Estonian and Lithuanian vessels which lie idle in U.S. harbors and throw them into the Battle of the Atlantic. In the House the bill stirred up the whole argument over convoys, interventionists called the bill "an act of war," and for the third time the German Government sent a formal protest...
There are, however, other things which the U.S. can do, some of which President Roosevelt has already planned, or done. He has already seized 290,000 tons (equivalent to three weeks' sinkings) of Italian, German and Danish vessels. These might be turned over to Britain, but it would take time to repair sabotage and devise juridical excuses. He has opened the Red Sea to U.S. shipping, but it would take time for ships to get there. He has assigned $500,000,000 under the Lend-Lease Act for the construction of 212 new quickly built "ugly ducklings" and other...
Thus the U.S. assumed a virtual protectorate over Greenland. It acted under the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids the transfer of territory in the Americas from one non-American power to another. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen muttered about taking appropriate action. In Copenhagen the Danish Government, under Nazi pressure, disavowed the agreement, protested, ordered Minister de Kauffmann's recall. Minister de Kauffmann paid no attention...