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Over that luncheon lay the question of war. Over it too lay the question of U.S. public opinion. Two days earlier, President Roosevelt had told Congress that U.S. naval forces had occupied Iceland. U.S. public opinion supported this move even though Iceland lay in what Germany called its war zone. Moreover, said the President in his message, "I have . . . issued orders to the Navy ... to insure the safety of communications between Iceland and the United States." It now seemed inevitable that U.S. and German forces would clash in the Atlantic. But no observer could claim that U.S. public opinion...
whatever Wendell Willkie really thought, he appeared to be well satisfied on leaving. Reporters pounced on him with questions. Iceland? Willkie said that he believed the occupation of Iceland was only the first of many similar steps that should be taken to insure delivery of aid to Britain. Northern Ireland? "Yes. I favor bases in North Ireland and Scotland." He smiled when a newsman told him that pollsters had found the U.S. overwhelmingly opposed to war. He said, "If in April of 1861 the people of the North had been polled, I believe they would have voted against...
...weeks before he sent naval forces to Iceland, Franklin Roosevelt tried to make up his mind whether that rocky island, a stepping stone in the sea between Greenland and Britain, properly belonged within the borders of the Western Hemisphere which the U.S. has guaranteed to protect. Characteristically, when the President decided to act, he brushed the question aside, justified his move on grounds of military necessity...
...from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
When President Roosevelt last January called in Dr. Isaiah Bowman, 62-year-old President of Johns Hopkins University and a famed geographer, to find a definition of the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Bowman first suggested the 26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th meridian proved unsatisfactory to the President, Dr. Bowman pondered some more, obligingly came up with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's mid-channel theory. According to Explorer Stefansson, the line should run midway through the "widest channel" between Europe and the Americas, would give Iceland to the Western Hemisphere...