Evening star., 1941-07-09
Iceland Move Brinqs
j. ). Into War Zone,
Germans Declare
Roosevelt Much Closer
To Conflict, Berlin
Spokesman Says

By the Associated Press
BERLIN, July 9-The Uniteo
States. by occupation of Iceland
has taken an active military steE
ard is now represented by troops
IN the war zone, a German spokes'
man observed today.
From a military point of view
these troops might as we'll be IN
British port" he said.
German sources also said the oc-
cupation of Iceland recalls and gives
new significance to President Roose-
velt's comments concerning the
Azores. Dakar and Cape Verde
islands.
No responsible German Said sc
but it was obvious that Berlin was
counting on the possibility that the
United States would occupy other
places.
Roosevelt for long time has
been approaching war and now has
moved much closer to it, a spokes-
man said.
Hemispheres Uncertain.
There was speculation here as tc
what the Western Hemisphere l!
and whether Iceland belongs to the
hemisphere defense sphere.
Americans have made the Noro
Western Hemisphere sort Cf NOV
able geographical conception this
commentator said.
(The German reference was to
President Roosevelt's flreside
chat MAY 27 in which he de-
clared NaZi plans go beyond
military possession of the greater
part of Europe and added:
CThey also have the armed pow
er at any moment to occupy Spain
and Portugal; and that threat
extends not only to French North
Africa and the western end of the
Mediterranean Sea, but extends
also to the Atlantic fortress OF
Dakar and TO the island outposts
of the New World-the Azores
and Cape Verde Islands.
eyes, these Cape Verde Is
lands are only seven hours dis
tance from Brazil by bomber or
troop carrying planes. They
dominate shipping routes to and
from the South Atlantic.
THE war is approaching the
l. 1f iSTonnrp
itself. 1t is coming very close TO
home.D
To-day it's Iceland; tomorrow Mr.
Roosevelt may decide the western
Hemisphere extends to the English
Channel or the Volga (in Russia,
a spokesman asserted.
Comment on the American ster
vas uniformly caustic. but there wa!
no indication whether it might pro-
woke military reaction.
stab in Europe's Back"
The mouthpiece of the German
Foreign Office. Deutsche Diplo'
matisch Politische Korrespondenz
viewed the United States entry int
Iceland as stab in the back of ;
European community which it sale
was struggling with Bolshevism fo
preservation of western civilization
The Boersen Zeitung, Berlin
leading financial paper and the only
other publication to comment, callet
the United States action the bruta
rape of small European people"
1t also said Mr.. Roosevelt entered
the operations zone of this war ano
consciously set foot on the battlefield
where the sharpshooting is going on
The responsibility lies with him"
The Boersen Zeitung is known t.
have excellent connections at Will
helmstrasse.
Lord HaW HaW, Berlin's stal
propaganda announcer for the Eng
disappearing public, last night de.
scribed the move as IAN act O.
aggression" which in effect scraps
the Monroe doctrine, according II
the broadcast as heard in New York
by c. B. S. Lord HaW HaW was
quoted in part as follows:
Now President Roosevelt decide;
to strike at Europe from behind anc
to violate the sovereignty of q small
and defenseless people who has pre-
ferred to remain neutral. After
occupying Greenland he has nov
sent troops to Iceland, thus com.
mitting an act of aggression. +'*
Since the war does not go to Mr.
Roosevelt in the Western Hemi'
sphere Mr.. Roosevelt has decided tt
run after the war for thousands o.
miles into the European Hemisphere
Thus the Monroe doctrine has beer
finally torn to pieces and Mr.. Roose
velts own assertion that his meas
ures were taken to safeguard tn,
Western Hemisphere has beer