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Same day that President Roosevelt told Congress that the U.S. had moved into Iceland, the National Geographic Society gave out still another definition. The "arbitrary line" which is "generally accepted" by geographers, said the Society, is the 20th meridian, which runs squarely through Iceland, assigns Portugal's Cape Verde Islands and the Azores to the Western Hemisphere...
...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...
...that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference one day last week, a reporter asked Colonel Knox whether the Navy's new policy meant that if U.S. ships ran afoul of Nazis between the U.S. and Iceland they would start shooting. For reply, the Secretary quoted Franklin Roosevelt's words: "I have . . . issued orders . . . that all necessary steps be taken...
Said a newsman: "Will the Navy shoot to keep the route to Iceland open?" Colonel Knox said firmly: "I refer you again to the message." The newsman was persistent: "Does the message cover that point?" The Colonel nodded. "Yes, it does...
Revelation. On July 3, four days before President Roosevelt announced that U.S. troops were in Iceland, Wheeler had told newsmen he was "reliably informed" that the U.S. was going to "take over that island...