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meteorological installations as might be necessary for the defense
of Greenland, and for the defense of the American continent. This
was eight months before Germany declared war on the United States.

"The Council's report on Greenland was only one item in an
extensive research project which offered an unusual instance of
wartime collaboration between Government agencies and a private
institution.... The project ... exhibited the kind of contribution
which the Council has been uniquely equipped to provide...."

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The Danish colony of Greenland--a huge island covered by polar ice--lies
in the Arctic Ocean, 1325 miles off the coast of Denmark. It is 200
miles from Canada, 650 miles from the British Isles. The extreme
southwestern tip of Greenland is 1315 miles from the most extreme
northeastern tip of the United States (Maine). In other words, Canada
and England, which were at war with Germany when we undertook to protect
Greenland from Germany, are both much closer to Greenland than the
United States is.

But history gives better proof than geography does, that the learned
Council members who put Greenland in the Western Hemisphere, within the
meaning of the Monroe Doctrine, were either ignorant or dishonest. The
Monroe Doctrine, closing the Western Hemisphere to further European
colonization, was proclaimed in 1823. Denmark, a European nation,
colonized Greenland, proclaiming sole sovereignty in 1921, without any
hint of protest from the United States that this European colonization
infringed upon the Monroe Doctrine.

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Members of the Council on Foreign Relations played a key role in getting
America into World War II. They played _the_ role in creating the basic
policies which this nation has followed since the end of World War II.
These policies are accomplishing:

(1) the redistribution to other nations of the great United States
reserve of gold which made our dollar the strongest currency in the
world;

(2) the building up of the industrial capacity of other nations, at
our expense, thus eliminating our pre-eminent productive
superiority;

(3) the taking away of world markets from United States producers
(and even much of their domestic market) until capitalistic America
will no longer dominate world trade;

(4) the entwining of Ameri