Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening of May 23, as the cruiser Suffolk hugged the mist between Iceland and Greenland, Able Seaman Newell let out a hail from, starboard. There, 14,000 yards away, were the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen. The Suffolk ducked back into the fog in a hurry (the Bismarck's guns had a range of 40,000 yards), then gingerly shadowed...
...France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom. Last was Secretary of State Dean Acheson, signing for the U.S., as President Truman looked on. All that remained was ratification by the U.S. Senate and by the Parliaments of the six other original sponsors...
...there are 11,808 future alumni living at the University. 620 of them come from abroad. Canada leads the world in sending men to Cambridge with its 120, and the figures dwindle down to a mere one for nations like Sierra Leone and Iceland...
...home governments had been informed of the text of the agreement, and all were believed ready to sign. Publication of the text was held up until this week, while the French went through some last-minute formalities in Paris. Foreign ministers of the eight* (plus Denmark, Italy and Iceland, possibly Portugal) were expected in Washington for signing ceremonies early in April...
...arrived in Washington, and was closeted with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who told him the facts of life as related to peace for the Atlantic community-and also, probably, gave him an estimate of what Denmark could expect in the way of arms after she signed. This week, Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson arrived for a similar briefing...