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...would be wholly successful." When Mr. Roosevelt spoke (by radio), war in Scandinavia was seven days old, and its westward impact was heavy upon him. During the first fogged days of battle (see p. 19), he and his military advisers wondered whether their profound dependence on the British fleet for protection in the Atlantic was misplaced. British successes later eased that fear, but a tremor remained. For the Allies, Washington speeded export of the newest U. S. fighting planes. Latest, possibly the fastest (over 425 m.p.h.), was a beetle-like, twin-engined, multi-gunned Grumman fighter designed for the Navy...
...emphatically disavowed) technical title to Denmark's Greenland-a vast (827,275 sq. mi.), arctic bloc only about 1,250 miles from northernmost Maine, well within the Monroe Doctrine's continental sphere. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers did not think the Nazis, with their already overtaxed fleet, could break past the British and use Greenland for a base during World...
...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...
...Janeiro. The world knew she had slammed a troop transport when Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...
Meanwhile Rumania had a parallel problem. Rumanian police, acting on a tip supposedly supplied by the pro-Nazi Iron Guard, detained a fleet of dynamite carrying British barges in the Danube. Their supposed destiny: to blast the Iron Gate (the narrow gorge where the Danube cuts through the Carpathians) and block the channel to other barges carrying Rumanian oil to Germany...