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Another bishop who dropped into Washington to witness the Episcopal consecration of Dr. Angus Dun was Dr. Sigurgeir Sigurdsson, Lutheran bishop of Iceland. Dr. Sigurdsson was on his way back to Reykjavik after representing Iceland's Government at the silver jubilee of the Icelandic National League in Winnipeg. He also had met as many as possible of the 12,000 Icelanders in the U.S. and assured Americans that U.S. troops are happy in Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small...
Last week the Admiralty reported that five U-boats were sunk, three crippled by Allied warships and planes in a two-day battle. A pack of 20 subs had attacked two adjacent convoys. Land-based U.S. planes from Iceland, British and Canadian planes from England, escort-carrier planes teamed with British destroyers and frigates. After the eighth submarine was hit, the enemy kept their distance. "Ninety nine percent" of the merchantmen got through safely. Not a British warship was scratched. The British lost three planes...
...reaches of the North Atlantic a postwar problem reared its infant head. By a landslide vote of 45-7, Iceland's Parliament called for full independence as a Republic on June 17, 1944, national Iceland...
...vote gave tangible proportions to a fretting issue between the U.S. and Great Britain. Iceland, united with Denmark under the King, was first occupied by British troops in May 1940, then garrisoned by U.S. soldiers in July 1941. A valuable way station on the convoy routes of war, it would also be an important stopover for postwar transatlantic air routes. Under its union agreement with Denmark (made in 1918 and considered inoperative as a result of Denmark's occupation), Iceland could act for independence any time after Jan. 1, 1944. Against that day the U.S. and Great Britain have...
...Iceland were independent of Denmark, it would come within the sphere of either British or U.S. influence. In Washington, Iceland's Minister Thor Thors made it plain that his country looks to the U.S. as its first big neighbor. But that alone would not decide the issue; at the peace table little Iceland's status would be a problem that the U.S. and Great Britain would have to settle...