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...TIME (May 15) you say that Iceland is occupied. This is a confusion of terms. Iceland is not occupied, and never has been. Iceland asked for and received military protection against Germany. The difference: an occupying force always handles some internal affairs of an occupied nation. The American forces in Iceland have scrupulously avoided mixing in any internal affairs of Iceland. The Icelanders have carried on their Government as before. . . . My personal hope is that soon the U.S. will be able to give military protection against Germany to more European nations and free them from occupation...
...hospitality of Iceland and the political politeness of U.S. troops quartered there, TIME'S admiration...
Everybody in Iceland knew that practically nobody in Iceland wanted to remain a vassal of the Dutch crown - particularly since old King Christian X, from Nazi-held Copenhagen, had stiffly told the Icelanders to mind their independent ways (TIME, May 15). The referendum on independence was a mere formality. In Reykjavik (the capital) alone, the vote...
Result: on June 17 Iceland will formally become a republic. Almost certain to be the first president: bulky, stern-faced, U.S.-minded Sveinn Björnsson, 63, the island's regent since...
Newest Is Old. World War II's first "new" nation is one of the world's oldest democracies. Discovered by Irish explorers in 795 A.D. (according to De Mensura Orbis Terrae, written in 825 A.D. by Dicuil, an Irish monk), Iceland was an independent commonwealth until 1264. Then it became a Norwegian protectorate, finally (in 1387) a Danish colony. Its Althing (Parliament; literally, The Thing) is 1,014 years...