Word: bjornsson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand-year-old Althing (Parliament) last week carried out the mandate of Icelanders (TIME, May 15). Every bell in the island pealed as Althing members assembled in the open air on Thingvellir (Parliament Plains), passed a law declaring Iceland an independent republic, voted to make Lawyer Sveinn Bjornsson the first president. Since U.S. troops landed in Iceland in 1941 he had served as Regent for Denmark's King Christian X, whose objections to an independent republic were overruled by the Althing...
...stolid statesmen of Reykjavik, measured and dignified in all things, erected their new order with utmost constitutional correctness. Until a republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...
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