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...year's class the refugee proportion was fairly high although this year it was much harder to spot as most of the refugees had established residence. Several were forced to withdraw at the last moment as a result of difficulty in transportation. Nonetheless residences in the class stretched from Iceland to Shanghai and included the sons of two ambassadors...
With representatives from Iceland and Hong Kong, the class will still be mainly composed of Bay Staters and New Yorkers following the pattern of other classes in the last decade. Several are listed as having prepared in French lycees, although the refugee group is not as noticeable as last year when families had not yet become so completely absorbed...
...invader could reach this general area by air (rather easily by hops from northern Britain to Iceland to Greenland), but to make use of it he would have to come by sea and establish a base there. To drive him out by a land attack might prove nearly as difficult as driving the Germans out of Norway for much of the terrain is almost equally barren and difficult. And from a base in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland he could harry the U. S. coast by sea and set about the steady business of softening up the U. S. and Canada...
...before the Germans came, he let in British soldiers or let the Royal Navy reoccupy its old bases at Berehaven, Lough Swilly and Cobh. The British Army massed troops to rush across the Irish Sea when the hour struck, and R. N. calmly announced new minefields from Scotland to Iceland to Greenland, to prevent the Germans sweeping around to Ireland from the north...
North Anchor of the British blockade in the Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King. British warships took Iceland under patrol, British troops were sent there "protectively" while the Nazis rampaged through Norway. Last week, following reports of a German expedition about to sail to seize Iceland, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada announced that a Canadian force had landed at Reykjavik, home of the world's oldest parliament (930 A.D.). Should the Germans arrive and fight, the Battle for Iceland would bring World War II within...