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...August 2 issue of TIME reached me somewhere in Iceland today [Aug. 12]. . . . This new Pony Edition arrives abreast of the very latest news, and makes me feel that the States, which I left a year ago, are almost close enough to reach out and touch...
...must fortify. . . . [In] the Atlantic, we must acquire by treaty or by occupation such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...
...grant our request for plane priority. Flying time is remarkably fast in these wartime days. Duncan Norton-Taylor left Australia Tuesday morning, crossed the international date line, reached San Francisco early Thursday. And when Edward Lockett flew in from London last week he had lunch in Scotland-dinner in Iceland -breakfast in New York...
Slight, shy, with clear brown eyes and a strong jaw, the 45-year-old prelate has one of the world's minor sees. There are only three hospitals, three parishes, two elementary schools, 400 Catholics. Of Iceland's 120,000 people, 94,000 are Lutherans. Like those in Denmark, they are High-Church, wear Mass vestments, etc. Some 20,000 Icelanders profess no faith at all. They live on isolated farms, so church-going is a good deal of a chore...
Henry L. Stimson arrived quietly in England by air the day after he had taken an official peek at U. S. troops in Iceland. The trip was the 75-year-old Secretary of War's first to an operational theater since the U.S. entered...