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Early this week Franklin Roosevelt moved the U.S. squarely into the Battle of the Atlantic. In Reykjavik, U.S. naval forces had landed, and Iceland was in hand (see p. 17). From where they were New York was 3,900 miles away, but Norway's Nazi-occupied Bergen was only 1,800 miles, Scotland's port of Glasgow only 1,600 miles, and Berlin a mere 2,800 miles as the bomber flies. The Western Hemisphere had stretched once more. The President had taken another great step...
...taken a serious step and said he wanted to discuss it with them. He did not ask them to approve his act. As Commander in Chief of the armed forces and director of the nation's foreign policy he had become convinced that it was necessary to occupy Iceland in order properly to defend the U.S. He felt he could not consult Congress beforehand because to do so might have placed the occupying forces in extreme danger while they were...
...avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that preventive occupation of the Azores and the Cape Verdes, or the garrisoning of Iceland will be ordered in the near future...
...Planes need bases. The Catalinas could fly from the Bismarck to Gibraltar, to Iceland, to Britain, and under ideal weather conditions might be refueled at sea; but shorter-range aircraft over the open sea would be helpless but for aircraft carriers. Britain has eight carriers, Germany has perhaps two, Italy has none. However, airfields ashore are "fixed carriers," and they are better than mobile carriers because they are not bound by sea carriers' limitations, and on the continent of Europe the Axis controls most of the fixed carriers...
...group, MacNeice had the most gaily matter-of-fact and the most realistically despairing things to say. His three exciting Eclogues (For Christmas, By a Five-Barred Gate, From Iceland) established him among modern-poetry readers as the gleeman-laureate of England's cushy post-World War I civilization and of its dismal decline. And in his shorter lyrics MacNeice had many high-spirited skirmishes with reality...