Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best possible proof that Denmark is an excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
...Gunnar of Vadin had lost his faith in the old pagan gods without accepting the new Christian doctrine that Olav was spreading. In the interim, he "put all his faith in his own strength," lived to learn that his strength was not great enough. When young Ljot of Iceland arrived at Vadin on a timber-buying expedition, old Gunnar made him welcome, was not adamant when 20-year-old Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both...
Last month in Copenhagen, a newshawk cornered Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland, just before that gracious lady set sail for the U. S. to stump for Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection. Did she not think, he asked, that it would be disagreeable for any husband to be of lower rank than his wife? "I can see no problems," countered William Jennings Bryan's 50-year-old daughter. "The food tastes equally good at both ends of the table...
Denmark's towering Christian X kings it over two separate realms. The second is a subarctic island covered with glaciers and boiling volcanoes, vast lava beds, gravel deserts and eternal clouds of sand and pumice dust. This is Iceland, whose 115,000 proud citizens are chiefly crowded in the lowlying southwestern corner of their grim island. Iceland won home rule in 1874, independent sovereignty in 1918. To show Icelanders that he takes his job as King of Iceland dead seriously, King Christian learned some Icelandic. Last week, for the first time in six years, King Christian paid Iceland...
When the royal yacht Dannebrog put in at Reykjavik, Iceland's metropolis, it flew not the white-crossed red flag of Denmark but Iceland's own royal flag of red, white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing...