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Maybe the Allies had suspected, belatedly, what was coming, had put two and two together from reports that Germany last week had concentrated grey-clad soldiers on Denmark's southern border, had carried out extensive embarkation and debarkation for landlubber fighting men at Baltic ports. For British minelayers one morning sowed three great fields along Norway's rugged coast, in Norway's territorial waters, minefields to drive German-bound ships with Swedish ore out into the open sea where the British Navy could get them. At one stroke this paralyzed ore shipping from Narvik, far north...
...Plan. Daring, ruthless, well conceived and swiftly executed was Hitler's plan. He would take Norway to protect his ore shipments, and use its fjords as bases for air, sea and submarine raids against Britain. He would take Denmark to insure his communications, and stop the Allies from establishing a wedge in her route from the north. He would take them so quickly that Sweden, hemmed in on the west by Norway, on the east by Russian-dominated Finland, would not dare to fight, could easily be beaten if she tried...
WASHINGTON -- German occupation of Denmark is causing official concern over the future of Greenland, Danish crown colony only 1,300 miles off the coast of Maine, it became evident today when President Roosevelt discussed the subject at his press conference...
Opening his speech there with a bitter condemnation of Germany's invasion of Norway and Denmark, he said, "The world is unhappy. I know I am after what happened 48 hours ago--it gives us all pause. We have seen a brutal invasion of a peace-minded people minding their own business...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt, in an unprecedented move tonight froze all balances and foreign exchange transactions in this country involving Norway Denmark, or their nationals to prevent their withdrawal under German pressure...