Word: greenlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...naval operations off Newfoundland in winter are difficult at best. But from the island, long-range submarines and cruising ships can keep an eye on Greenland, 950 miles away, and patrol the sea lanes from Europe to Montreal, Boston and New York City...
...relentless, silent hunt of vast proportions was afoot last week. The field was the gale-blasted barrens of the North Atlantic Ocean. The hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
Hemispheric cooperation today takes the place of the policy suggested in my seventh point. Unlike Germany, the U. S. prefers a policy of cooperation to one of domination. But Americans must view realistically the defense needs of this country in the area bounded by Alaska, the Arctic lands, Greenland, the Caribbean islands, northern South America and Hawaii...
...invader could reach this general area by air (rather easily by hops from northern Britain to Iceland to Greenland), but to make use of it he would have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada...
...little Portugal was one of the most aggressive and wealthiest countries in Europe. Egged on by the tough little kings of the House of Aviz, her explorers (Pedro Alvares Cabral, Tristao da Cunha, Alfonso de Albuquerque, Vasco da Gama, Lourengo de Almeida, et al.) ranged the seas from Greenland to Japan, netted an empire second only to Spain's. Like most nouveau riche nations, 15th-Century Portugal then began to take an interest in art. She carefully coddled a school of Portuguese painters, began a Portuguese Renaissance. Then, in 1581, Philip II of Spain conquered Portugal, and the Portuguese...