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...more routine acts remained to be done: i) a neutrality proclamation, recognizing Nazi conquest in Denmark, war in Norway, and forbidding all three, as belligerents, to buy on credit in the U. S.; 2) a statement denouncing the Nazis. At week's end, the neutrality proclamation was still unmade. For four days Mr. Roosevelt also withheld the statement. When he did speak last week, he did not name Germany. His words were for-the-record echoes of all that a U. S. President could say and had already said for Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Finland. ("If civilization...
Norway was a fish of a different scale. If Herr Hitler accomplishes his conquest of Norway, he will have an immediate economic liability on his hands. Like Denmark, Norway is an economic specialist. Her specialty is export of natural resources. She exports timber, pulp, cellulose; iron ore, pyrites, copper, nickel, molybdenum; fish, whale oil-products which Germany...
...their defense, the advocates of American intervention have now resorted to slipping an occasional joker out of their copious sleeves and easing it surreptitiously onto the nation's political bridge table. Latest in a long line of opportunities for finessing has been provided by inoffensive Greenland. With the conquest of Denmark by Germany, the status of the former Danish possession becomes highly indefinite. Presumably envisaging a gigantic Anschluss extending into this Atlantic iceberg, many Americans state that the United States' attitude toward Greenland must be the same as toward Canada. And even Mr. Roosevelt expresses the hope that the position...
While Berlin waited for Molotov to appear (and Moscow denied he was going), Germany's Dr. Karl Clodius was in Bucharest pressing Rumania for more oil-and reinforcing his arguments with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland. In the face of this pressure and of the danger that his country might be partitioned among Russia, Germany and Hungary if he refused to play ball, King Carol showed guts. He expelled a British Reuters correspondent who filed a story that Germany had delivered an ultimatum to Rumania, announced that a Rumanian trade delegation would...
...this added up to a suspicion that if Adolf Hitler plans a March or April campaign, it will conform to his traditional "artichoke plan" of conquest-small nations, leaf by little leaf...