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Primarily the Knox junket (aside from giving a restless man a break from Washington routine) was to inspect defenses against submarine attacks which have spread from Iceland to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Said Knox...
...British bombers over Oslo (see p. 28), were enough to prove again that Norway was a powder keg under the occupying Nazis, awaiting only the Allied match. A factor in Allied calculations, well known to the Germans, was the U.S. P-38, a fighter plane able to fly from Iceland or Britain to a landing point in Norway, thus enormously extending the feasible area of invasion...
There are no attics in the Army or Navy. So those who send Christmas presents to men in Northern Ireland. Australia, Iceland, Trinidad, Egypt, Midway or Brooklyn Navy Yard had better send things that are wanted. Last week, just in time for givers, the Department Store Economist published the results of a poll in which 1,000 servicemen rated 51 potential gifts as "swell," "fair" or "junk...
...addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek all the way across the world in Chungking...
...mule troops until 1941, is far behind the Axis. A new camp abuilding in Colorado (elevation 9,500 ft.) will train a whole division. This is only a small start. Of possible U.S. theaters of war, nearly a fifth are mountainous: e.g., Alaska, the Canal Zone, Iceland, Malaya, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece. In such terrain, where mechanized divisions stall, the U.S. may some day have to depend on its mountain troopers and slogging, sure-footed mules...