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Even when Iceland had been occupied, a great many more less controversial things had not been done. The U.S. and its President, if they faced the facts, had still to face three enormous U.S. failures...
...Iceland brought shooting nearer, these things were more, rather than less, important. But as regards them the President still seemed to be waiting for the people to catch up, and the people still seemed to be waiting for him to catch...
Naval and marine units occupied Iceland, which lies directly in the battlefield of the Atlantic. This act, which constituted the first U.S. plunge into cold action, was of tremendous strategic importance. It meant that a new visible weight, not just the clatter of it, was actually beginning to loom up in the west against the Germans. At the moment, it loomed not very large -but it loomed...
...arrival of the force made it possible for the British to evacuate their garrison of occupation, which had been in Iceland since a month after the Nazi invasion of Iceland's sister kingdom, Denmark. The British-Canadian garrison had been estimated at about 80,000 men, who would be useful elsewhere...
...recruits will begin to dribble back home two months later. And under present law, the Army could make no move outside the hemisphere without Congress' say-so, thus advertising its intention to a foe who moves with lightning speed and without warning. This week's occupation of Iceland was a move the Army could not have joined on anything but pipsqueak scale...