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...Into Boston Harbor last week steamed the filthy, seaworn, ketch-rigged little (61-ton) Norwegian tub Busko, first Nazi sea victim of U.S. naval might, trapped off Greenland by a U.S. patrol vessel, escorted into the harbor by the old 703-ton Coast Guard cutter Bear, once a Byrd Antarctic ship. Aboard the Busko were radio equipment, skis, dogsleds, two dogs, a Gestapo agent, 18 Norwegian sailors, a woman and a boy. What was the status of the captives? Were they prisoners of war or (since the U.S. is not in the war) prisoners of defense? Under what law could...
...Navy won its first sea victory of World War II late in September, but the announcement was not made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather...
This week, as the search went on for other Nazi radio stations in Greenland, the Norwegian freighter, identified as the Busko, was escorted into Boston Harbor...
Favorite quarrel among geologists is whether or not the continents are still drifting. One school holds that Greenland and Scotland are 60 feet farther apart every year, that the distance between Paris and Washington increases a foot a year. Others insist that it will take many more years of astronomical measurement and scientific study of latitude and longitude to prove any drift...
...Before the U.S. can be effectively invaded from the middle Atlantic-or from enemy outposts established in Latin America-the Caribbean must be taken or penetrated. The only alternative route is through the North Atlantic, whose approaches the U.S. must control from Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland (where another Army airman also commands all Army forces...