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...staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer to the U.S. A firm anti-Nazi, married to the daughter of a U.S. admiral, he had one trump card to play when the Germans brought pressure on the Danes to force his recall: the U.S. would not recognize any other Danish envoy...
Thus the U.S. assumed a virtual protectorate over Greenland. It acted under the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids the transfer of territory in the Americas from one non-American power to another. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen muttered about taking appropriate action. In Copenhagen the Danish Government, under Nazi pressure, disavowed the agreement, protested, ordered Minister de Kauffmann's recall. Minister de Kauffmann paid no attention...
Following up their open letter of March 18, the American Defense, Harvard Group, sent a resolution to President Roosevelt yesterday urging the Administration to "take immediate steps to make its policy effective, whether that means further transfer of destroyers of collaboration with the British in the convey service...
...month, a follow-up letter helped quiet employers' fears. It warned that "many skilled technical men will be required and will be obtained by Governmental agencies for emergency tasks." It argued that "with the comprehensive list of talent so obtained, we will be able to ... choose those whose transfer will cause the least disruption to industry." It promised that "our questionnaire cards will be kept permanently in strictest confidence at the offices of the E. S. D., with technical qualifications made available to responsible Governmental agencies (not to private employers). Those men eligible for emergency tasks will be approached...
...keep continually informed about food conditions in Europe; 2. do all in its power to promote the giving of aid where need is clearly demonstrated; 3. seek ways so that the aid be given without materially aiding Germany, and help to establish the proper controls to guard against the transfer of any part of this food to the armed forces or to workers in war industries...