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...British ships cruised in the swirling snowstorms and heavy mists of the North Sea, or crouched before Trondheim against the smash the Germans might make from Trondheim and Helgoland against the long artery to Murmansk and the Russian front...
...leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate to think of the military center of control shifting to Washington. It gives me a nasty feeling . . . that we may find ourselves reduced to what I term occupying the position of America's Helgoland off the coast of Europe...
Several things happened last week to make diplomats wonder how long it would be before the policy of Pan-American solidarity got its first real test. From Barranquilla, Colombia, where she had been anchored since the war began, sailed the German freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
Singapore is one of the four most formidable naval fortresses in the world (others: Helgoland, Gibraltar, Pearl Harbor). Before the war started, Britain's strength at Singapore consisted of three cruisers, one aircraft carrier, nine destroyers, 15 submarines and a number of smaller craft-only enough to play for time until help came from the British China Squadron (four cruisers), from Australia and New Zealand (eight cruisers, five destroyers, some of which are now in the Mediterranean) and from the Mediterranean (now impossible). Singapore's guns are powerful, and the only successful attack would be a long siege...
...Writing that off as a dead loss, the project was still worthwhile, provided Hermann Goring's air force was as all-powerful as rated. But Norway's coast is a nearer target for the R. A. F. than Germany's air bases at Sylt and in Helgoland Bight. Moreover, destruction of the German Fleet would leave the Allied navies more free to fight elsewhere to Germany's disadvantage...