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Behind the British bastion, hemisphere defense must rely on: 1) slowly augmenting U.S. air and naval forces; 2) naval and air bases from Greenland to the River Plate, from Alaska to Chile and as far east in the Atlantic as the Azores. Baldwin insists that defense of the hemispheric eastern coastline is impracticable until the U.S. has a base in the hump of Brazil. But until there is a unified hemispheric strategy, a unified U.S. command, a unified U.S. production plan, says Baldwin, defense effort will be hit or miss, with a dangerous percentage of misses...
...announced that the Red Sea would not be considered a war area, and therefore open to American shipping. With Nazi troops entrenched in North Africa, this comes dangerously close to making unconvoyed American cargo ships vulnerable to Nazi torpedoes. Yesterday he disclosed to his press conference that American protectorate Greenland "may now be occupied by the Axis powers." Whether this is founded or unfounded, the American public gets a look at the same sort of balloon they saw during the Neutrality Act discussion, when he announced to the papers that he had sighted a submarine off the coast of Newfoundland...
Coupled with the Greenland trial balloon, Mr. Roosevelt made it "evident . . . from the discussion with correspondents that he views the neutrality patrol as capable of almost unlimited extension and a means likely to protect shipping as effectively as convoys." "Neutrality patrol" is rapidly becoming synonymous to "convey...
...come down to us throughout the centuries . . . will enable us most surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which the U.S. had just taken over-Winnie Churchill might guess but only his hated foe could know...
...worse explosions to come. It was a prognosis which the U.S., having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking...