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...will fight for freedom of the seas, for "if the Axis powers fail to gain control of the seas they are certainly defeated." > Nazi occupation of Iceland, Greenland, the Cape Verde Islands, the Azores would "endanger the freedom of the Atlantic and our own American physical safety." > The U.S. will not wait until the Western Hemisphere is actually invaded to strike back: "We in the Americas will decide for ourselves whether and when and where our American interests are attacked or our security threatened...
...State Department, which has devoted a lot of thought to Iceland lately, showed instant signs of appreciation. The State Department announced that a new vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known as a highly efficient fellow who has turned in excellent reports from all his posts, last of which was at the U.S. Legation in Managua, Nicaragua...
Last week rumors flew again of Nazi troop concentrations against Iceland in northern Norway. Some observers saw the pattern for invasion in the attack on Crete. Should the Nazis hazard it. they would find Iceland twelve times as large, and with a population three times as small as Crete-much better suited to parachute and glider tactics. But Iceland lies at least five times as far from nearest Nazi bases as Crete from the mainland of Greece. Since last May, when Canadian troops landed to guard armyless, navyless Iceland, the British have put, according to some reports...
...State Department's concern for republican Iceland is not unnatural...
...seated as she is above north Atlantic shipping routes, Iceland matters even more than Greenland in Western Hemisphere defense...