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...With Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Belgium, Turkey and Egypt...
...Those wooed by both sides for their important strategic position, like Iceland and Afghanistan...
Bjartur of Summerhouses is the central figure in Independent People. This grim, graphic novel of life on the Icelandic uplands, circa 1900-1920, is the Book-of-the-Month Club's choice for August and, according to the publisher, an "epic in the grand tradition of great fiction." It may be less expansively described as a half-sympathetic, half-scornful portrait of the Icelandic peasant mind, done with broad "epic" touches and special political intent. For Author Halldór Laxness uses his fine portrait, which is drawn in almost Holbein-like detail, as the text...
...British unilateral action in the Pacific and in Indonesia effectively prevented a liberal alignment with those elements who were beating the drum over Russian unilateral action in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The knowledge that British troops were garrisoned in Greece, that American units were still stationed in Iceland, likewise silenced criticism of the presence of Russian forces in Azerbaijan. But as the Big Four powers move crab-fashion away from their peripheral problems towards the nexus of all the problems of the peace--Germany interpretation has given way to savage criticism, and attack. With the focus of attention centered...
...last week the U.S. had learned how tough obtaining bases in peacetime could be. It had suffered one defeat in Iceland, when the infant republic truculently asserted its neutrality, signed a trade treaty with Russia, and decided to keep both U.S. and U.S.S.R. military forces out of the island. Greenland, whose bases border the Arctic Circle, would be less trouble...