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...Dear Sis," he wrote, "... I think we will make another trip to Iceland before we go to the Navy Yards. I sure hope I can come home on leave even if it is only for a few days. . . . We sure don't get much time in any more. . . . We are here only until Thursday morning and then back to Portland. From there I don't know...
From there the Reuben James picked up a convoy and worked up toward where it was chilly. Walter Sorensen did not know where she was bound: some of the guys said probably Russia; others said no, just Iceland again...
WASHINGTON--The Navy Department today abandoned hope of rescuing the 95 missing members of the crew of the U. S. Destroyer Reuben James, which was torpedoed and sunk off Iceland last month, and announced belatedly that the 16,800 ten Naval tanker Salinas had been "seriously damages" by a U-boat in the same general area...
...Iceland's 118,000 hard-working farm and fishing folk did not like the strangers...
Premier Jónasson's Progressive Party has watched price levels kite to 70% above normal (TIME, Oct. 13), has long wanted a price-fixing law to hold them down. But the other two parties in Iceland's Coalition Cabinet have refused to consent to a measure which they said meant "State Socialism." So Premier Jónasson last week presented his Government's resignation to Regent Sveinn Björnsson, let others try to form a Cabinet that would tackle Iceland's problem...