Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present public opinion, Seavey claimed, shows that American feelings are decidedly not neutral. The popular acceptance of the destroyer deal, the occupation of Iceland, and convoying of ships, indicate the true attitude of the United States. "Repeal of the Act," he continued, "would take off the cover of hypocrisy and would clearly draw the lines of our foreign policy...
This week Adolf Hitler took up Franklin Roosevelt's challenge. President Roosevelt had declared the North Atlantic around Iceland "defensive waters." The President had announced that U.S. war ships would protect all shipping in those waters, shoot on sight any Nazi or Italian raider brash enough to invade them. The President had said: "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike . . . you crush...
...defiance, the rattlesnake struck. To Washington came the news that the 6,850-ton Pink Star, owned by the U.S. Government, flying the flag of Panama, had been sunk off Iceland in the same waters where a Nazi submarine had tried to torpedo the destroyer Greer and a raider had sent the merchantman Sessa to the bottom...
Exclusive of the Air Forces (which Pundit Lippmann excepted from his suggested reduction) the Army today numbers a round 1,400,000 in officers and men. For purely defensive purposes, military experts now consider that the U.S. Army needs as minima these forces outside the continental U.S.: Iceland, 15,000; Philippine Islands, 160,000; Canal Zone and Caribbean bases, 200,000; Hawaii, 200,000; Alaska, 110,000. Total 685,000. For permanent establishments in the U.S., to man fixed.bases, provide anti-aircraft and air defense for the coasts, it needs a minimum of 1,000,000 more. It also needs...
Since the war began the "Newcastle" has soon action in northern, Mediterranean, and southern waters. First she served on the Iceland patrol, where her eight-inch guns saw special action in an all-night fray with the merchantman "Parana...