ROOSEVELT SENDS TROOPS TO OCCUPY GREENLAND
Washington, D.C. • April 10, 1941 On April 9, 1941, a full year after Operation Weseruebung had brought Denmark and Norway into Nazi Germany’s orbit, the Danish ambassador in Washington, D.C., Henrik Kauffmann, signed an executive agreement with the U.S. Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, authorizing the U.S. to protect the remote Danish colony of…