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Members of W1AF, at the University's 1947 summer session, would then maintain contact with Kent's Island, obtaining such information as weather reports and results of field trips. W1AF would also handle traffic with the SS Bowdoin on its yearly trip to Greenland and the Arctic...
There were few doubts as to what that policy would be. Among its pointedly implied recommendations: ¶ The abandonment of the present U.S. military program, which embraces the manufacture of B-29s, B-36s, $13 billion for the War and Navy Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system...
Vinland Story. Reviewing the story (itself as much legend as history) of Leif Ericson's trip from Greenland to "Vinland'' about 1000 A.D., he decides that Vinland must have been somewhere in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay. Three centuries later, he notes, a certain Paul Knutson was ordered by the King of Norway and Sweden to lead an expedition in search of Greenland colonists who were reported to have forsaken Christianity and moved away. Where would they go? Vinland, naturally. So off Knutson and his men sailed for Narragansett Bay; they arrived there...
...white beaches of Tarawa and the black ash of Iwo, the U.S. naval and military brass hats were determined that never again would they be handicapped by having to capture bases in the midst of war. They wanted bases needed (for Navy and Air Forces) from Greenland to the South Seas. Although military airmen's eyes were fixed on the North Polar icecap as the likeliest no man's land of a future war (because the military strength of the world is in the northern hemisphere), most of the proposed new bases were much nearer the Equator...
...last week the U.S. had learned how tough obtaining bases in peacetime could be. It had suffered one defeat in Iceland, when the infant republic truculently asserted its neutrality, signed a trade treaty with Russia, and decided to keep both U.S. and U.S.S.R. military forces out of the island. Greenland, whose bases border the Arctic Circle, would be less trouble...