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...Iceland's thousand-year-old Althing (Parliament) last week carried out the mandate of Icelanders (TIME, May 15). Every bell in the island pealed as Althing members assembled in the open air on Thingvellir (Parliament Plains), passed a law declaring Iceland an independent republic, voted to make Lawyer Sveinn Bjornsson the first president. Since U.S. troops landed in Iceland in 1941 he had served as Regent for Denmark's King Christian X, whose objections to an independent republic were overruled by the Althing...
...York via Newfoundland or Labrador, Greenland, Iceland to Oslo-Stocknolm-Helsinki-Leningrad-Moscow-Teheran-Basra...
...Secretary Stimson announced that the Army has 3,657,000 overseas, of its total strength of 7,700,000. These men are on every continent and hundreds of islands from Iceland to Biak. (Peak A.E.F. strength in World War I was 2,057,675.) To nourish this great force supply lines stretch more than 56,000 miles, to every continent. Some 1,150,000 of the Army's troops outside the U.S. are in the Air Forces...
...modern world, where oceans are narrow and no place is really remote, Iceland's chief claim to distinction is geographic. Squatting squarely astride the hemisphere dividing line (the 20th degree of west longitude), it is an important base for protection of Europe-bound convoys, in the postwar years will be an important aerial way station between North America and Europe...
Farthest Is Nearest. Icelanders know that they must lean on a strong, good-neighborly power. The British Isles are only 700 miles away. But the U.S., whose troopships steamed 2,300 miles to Reykjavik's cobblestoned levees in 1941, is closer in other ways. Naturally Iceland does not like the presence of strangers. But the U.S. has demonstrated neighborliness by trying to keep things on a guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish...