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With the U.S. occupying Iceland, Germany's vital objectives in the Battle of the Atlantic are to the south: the French port of Dakar, Spain's Canary Islands, the Portuguese Azores and Cape Verde Islands. Last week in France and Spain the Nazis continued their advance on these bases, using for weapons (since their others were occupied elsewhere) pressure and propaganda...
Yelped the press: "Roosevelt is a trail blazer of criminal unscrupulousness . . . Aggressor No. 1 . . . a marathon runner in his pursuit of war. . . . Roosevelt thus further proves that the provocatory assault on little Iceland was only a beginning...
...banning of U.S. correspondents from Iceland last week could not be laid at the door of Britain's Ministry of Information, but London newsmen laid it there anyhow, largely on the grounds that any press mix-up would find the Ministry up to its hips...
Last week three U.S. correspondents boarded a train in London, prepared to take off for Iceland. Halfway to Scotland, the British Military Intelligence hauled them off. Washington, it turned out, had no desire to let newshawks hover over Reykjavik...
While London reporters kidded frustrated U.S. confreres, the Iceland ban caused a furore in Washington. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, who dearly loves a secret, had actually promised that he would arrange to send U.S. correspondents to Iceland. He made his promise over the protest of Chief of Naval Operations Stark and Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet. But one big No gummed up his plans. It issued from his Commander in Chief. Operating on Presidential instructions, the State Department refused passports to all correspondents...