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...beside radio speeches was cooking in the White House. The President planned direct and drastic action to win the Battle of the Atlantic. He pondered issuing a proclamation, in the form of an executive announcement, that if the Germans send submarines or bombers into the area between Halifax and Iceland the U.S. will fire on them. He was prepared at last to order U.S. warships to convoy from the U.S. to Iceland. British warships might cooperate in the convoys, but a U.S. flagship would accompany each group...
...held. Last week the New York Herald Tribune's hustling William W. White cabled from London the same old story: the U.S. may stretch the rubberized Hemisphere once again, may extend the naval patrol to southern Ireland, may "take over" south Irish bases as the Marines took over Iceland...
...crew of the Prince of Wales knew they would fetch Winston Churchill home unharmed. All the ack-acks aboard raised a jubilant barrage. Five hundred-odd miles north of the northernmost tip of Britain's isles, their precious charge went ashore at Reykjavik, capital of Kentucky-sized Iceland...
...Some American destroyers, who were carrying mails to the United States Marines in Iceland, happened to be going the same way, too, so we made a goodly company at sea together; and when we were right out in mid-passage one afternoon a noble sight broke in view. We overtook one of the convoys which carry munitions and supplies of the New World to sustain the champions of freedom...
...Experts generally cut the German High Command's naval triumph figures almost in half.) The British took this as a sign that they were doing a lot better in the battle of the blockade, pointed out that July, with its lengthy stretches of daylight (in the region of Iceland as much as 24 hours), is considered one of the best months for maritime raiding. (The Nazis burbled that they had already sunk so much enemy tonnage that the Atlantic was virtually free of merchant shipping.) Undoubted contributing factor: withdrawal of long-range Nazi bombers to the Russian Front...