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...West Indies, Professor Langer felt, our interests are more easily protected as a result of the tradition of the Monroe Doctrine. As force in Greenland demonstrated the effect of a strong United States policy in contrast to our lack of interest in Iceland, so force in the West Indies will be effective if it ever appears that Britain and France incapable of maintaining them...
...neither reply to communications nor obey commands of his Foreign Office as long as it was under duress from Germany. Last week Minister de Kauffmann waited for his recall, but he did not intend to be jobless. He was busy setting up a commission to administer the affairs of Greenland. Since such a Danish commission would relieve the U. S. or Canada of the responsibility of feeding and protecting the big island, Minister de Kauffmann confidently expected to meet no objections...
When Germany took Denmark, Adolf Hitler acquired (and emphatically disavowed) technical title to Denmark's Greenland-a vast (827,275 sq. mi.), arctic bloc only about 1,250 miles from northernmost Maine, well within the Monroe Doctrine's continental sphere. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers did not think the Nazis, with their already overtaxed fleet, could break past the British and use Greenland for a base during World...
...State Department pondered: what of Greenland, with its unexploited riches and its strategic nearness to the U. S., if Hitler wins his war and claims his western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...
...Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete when Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March...