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June 26-28?Millennial celebration of the Icelandic Parliament*; at Thingvellir, Iceland...
Prosperous Iceland is just about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of her Althing ("The Oldest Parliament in the World"). She has weathered a fiscal crisis which seemed to threaten her banking structure, emerged sound (TIME, Feb. 17). After painful conning and concentration, King Christian X of Denmark, who is also King of Iceland, has learned enough Icelandic to read his Millennial Day speech in that tongue. Everything seemed ready, last week, for a perfect celebration which thousands of U. S. tourists will attend. Suddenly a terrific squabble and commotion was raised by Dr. Helgi Tomasson, Director...
Backed by a group of prominent Icelandic physicians, Dr. Tomasson issued a public statement that the "Mussolini of Iceland," famed Herra Jónas Jónsson, boss politician, Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics, is a lunatic, suggested that if his skill and that of his associates is not sufficient to diagnose Herra Jónsson as mad, then by all means let the world's foremost psychiatric authorities be summoned to Reykjavik...
Lunatic or no lunatic, the "Mussolini of Iceland" acted last week like a statesman, dismissed Dr. Tomasson from his post as Director of the Icelandic Lunatic Asylum, brought pressure on the Icelandic press to drop discussion of the whole matter, pushed resolutely on with plans for the Millennial Celebration...
...Particularly infantile was debate in Washington over the statue last September. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota's first district introduced the appropriation bill with this ringing preamble: ."Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland Leif Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who in the year 1,000 A.D. discovered the American mainland...