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Regarding MacArthur's policy on Formosa [TIME, Sept. 4]: I cannot help but think of our entering Iceland in 1941 when we were not yet at war. The parallel is exact today in the case of Formosa...
Anyone with any sense at all knows that if we had not gone into Iceland, the Nazis would have, and would have wrought havoc by air attacks on our North Atlantic shipping routes...
...World War I, Smith, as a fledgling Marine officer, had been sent to Guam-of all places-where the only German he might have sighted (he did not) would have been Count Luckner, the Kaiser's famed sea raider. Pearl Harbor found Smith in-of all places-Iceland. He missed the 1st Marine Division's epochal blooding on Guadalcanal...
...thousand years ago the Vikings of Scandinavia sailed and rowed their great open boats across the seas to Normandy, Iceland, Ireland and America with no protection but that of a huge dragon's head prow. There were no insurance companies then to tell the Vikings that their ships were poor risks, no spoilsports to cry "careful...
Toward the end of his life. Dilettante Smith, by then a corpulent old man, played at the game of dangling his inheritance before a group of younger followers. He was given to fits of genuine madness (he had once lost his wits on a trip to Iceland and accused Gathorne-Hardy of kidnaping him for a ransom). In 1946, in the last weeks of his life, he refused to see the disciple who had been faithful for 17 years, and in the end the inheritance went to another man. Magnanimously, he shared it with the loyal Gathorne-Hardy...