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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...
President Roosevelt got his incident last week-the incident he has been expecting ever since he stretched the Hemisphere patrol to Iceland. This week he got the incident he has been waiting for since he stretched the shipment of U.S. war materials...
...public was calm, but not the President. For at least a fortnight he had been pondering (TIME, Sept. 1) an order to fire on Nazi submarines or bombers in the area between Halifax and Iceland. Now the Germans had fired first, before his warning. The Germans seemed clearly in the wrong. When reporters filed in for press conference next day he did not even wait for questions...
...Reykjavik, U.S.S. Greer knifed through the cold and grey Atlantic. As on every U.S. warship in those waters her men were standing special watches, with crews at guns, depth-charge and torpedo stations. The men of the Greer were going through the fatiguing routine of taking the mail to Iceland...
...Before the U.S. can be effectively invaded from the middle Atlantic-or from enemy outposts established in Latin America-the Caribbean must be taken or penetrated. The only alternative route is through the North Atlantic, whose approaches the U.S. must control from Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland (where another Army airman also commands all Army forces...