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...bombers operating from bases in Greenland...
...Greenland under U.S. protection...
...feelings were not aroused, the sinking of the Robin Moor had nonetheless brought a crisis on the U.S. The Robin Moor had not been bound for any war area, was far even from the huge war zone which Germany herself laid out-an area extending from Norway to Greenland, almost to Spain. If such sinkings continue, U.S. ships bound for other places remote from fighting fronts, will be in danger.* Henceforth the U.S. would either have to recall its ships from the ocean or enforce its right to the free use of the seas...
...Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
...will fight for freedom of the seas, for "if the Axis powers fail to gain control of the seas they are certainly defeated." > Nazi occupation of Iceland, Greenland, the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores would "endanger the freedom of the Atlantic and our own American physical safety." > The U.S. will not wait until the Western Hemisphere is actually invaded to strike back: "We in the Americas will decide for ourselves whether and when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened...