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...weeks before he sent naval forces to Iceland, Franklin Roosevelt tried to make up his mind whether that rocky island, a stepping stone in the sea between Greenland and Britain, properly belonged within the borders of the Western Hemisphere which the U.S. has guaranteed to protect. Characteristically, when the President decided to act, he brushed the question aside, justified his move on grounds of military necessity...
...miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
...conference next afternoon President Roosevelt smilingly turned aside a question about his definition of the Western Hemisphere. It all depended, said he, on what geographer he had consulted last. A newsman reminded him that once he had marked the border of the Western Hemisphere as a line running between Greenland and Iceland. The President chuckled: it all depended on what geographer he had consulted last...
...express approbation for their Minister to the U.S. Henrik de Kauffmann, who put Greenland in U.S. keeping, many Danes recently took to wearing little Statue-of-Liberty insignia on their lapels. The Nazis forbade...
First: this force would be charged with warding off threats to Greenland and the rest of North America's northern flank...