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...cried: "Do we want to let millions be crucified later because there is a jeopardy that a few might die an honorable death now?" The U.S., Pepper stormed, should get tough, "occupy the points of vantage from which these monsters are preparing to strike at us ... Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands, Dakar. . . ." He saw Japan as "ready to assassinate us," suggested that U.S. aviators be permitted to fight with the Chinese Army. ". . . At the controls of some first-class American bombing planes, 50 of them . . . can make a shambles out of Tokyo." Even sympathetic...
...Life in Iceland the soldiers reported, was not cordial. When a British expeditionary force took over Iceland at the time of the Nazi invasion of Norway, their reception by the natives was anything but warm. The Icelanders so resented the British that soldiers had to go out in parties of three, well-armed and on their guard against stabbings and shootings. When the soldiers bought eggs, they had to pay $1.20 a dozen, and then the Icelandic grocers had to be watched as they would put only ten in the bag. Icelandic diet was narrow. Mutton appeared in nearly every...
...soldiers' greatest problem was the stubborn womankind of Iceland. About the only word of Icelandic they learned was the word for girl, stulka. They would lounge in the streets, calling "Hi, stulka" to every blonde. But they got no response...
Soldiers were not admitted into Iceland homes. Reykjavik, which was supposed to boast that law & order were natural to it, called up an unprecedented police force of 65 men. Icelandic workmen charged the invaders high wages...
...this uncordiality, said the soldiers, was the result of patiently spread German propaganda to the effect that Iceland and Germany were brother States. Three years ago Poet Auden reported seeing Herman Goring's brother in Reykjavik and hearing that Nazi Mystagogue Alfred Rosenberg was soon to come. British found large areas where the shale had been scraped away apparently for landing fields. The occupation of Iceland, uncongenial though it might be, seemed worth the price as a preventive...