Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensitive Russians characteristically prepared to launch a diplomatic counteroffensive. Poland, Russia's stooge, served notice that she would bring before the Security Council a charge that the Franco regime in Spain was a threat to world peace. Russia might also object to U.S. troops in China and Iceland...
...said Europe was hungry? Just a lot of hogwash for Uncle Sap, said Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News. The News had sent Robert Conway, one of its local men, on a junket to Iceland; he had gone on to Europe on his own. From Rome he sent home a story which the News headlined...
There were three noteworthy omissions from the Navy's list: in the Pacific, the Galapagos Islands, which have been the subject of touchy negotiations with Ecuador; in the Atlantic, Greenland and Iceland-about which the Russian bear might be touchy...
General Joe Stilwell, who should know, volunteered a definition of a G.I.: "A special brand of American who inhabited North Africa, France, Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...
...Norfolk Navy Yard last week shipwrights swarmed over a rakish gunboat, reconverting her into a presidential yacht for Harry Truman. She was the U.S.S. Williamsburg, lately with the Atlantic Fleet, before that a high-speed convoy flagship based in Iceland...