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...Northward to Iceland traveled blond, chunky, 39-year-old Bertel Eric Kuniholm, Foreign Service career man, to serve as first U. S. consul to Iceland. The office was created when Iceland's sovereign, King Christian of Denmark, capitulated to Adolf Hitler last April. Mr. Kuniholm's staff: one clerk...
...West Indies, Professor Langer felt, our interests are more easily protected as a result of the tradition of the Monroe Doctrine. As force in Greenland demonstrated the effect of a strong United States policy in contrast to our lack of interest in Iceland, so force in the West Indies will be effective if it ever appears that Britain and France incapable of maintaining them...
Last week the fishermen & farmers of the Althing handsomely voted not to depose their King but merely that, "having regard for the fact that the situation now created makes it impossible for His Majesty the King of Iceland to execute the royal power," it shall be vested "until further notice" in Icelandic Premier Hermann Jónasson & Cabinet...
What really interested Iceland was that in London last week the "Mother [but not oldest] of Parliaments" was flatly promised by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill that the Nazis will be kept out of Iceland. Last year there was every sign that A. Hitler & Co. might be ready overnight to seize this kingdom...
...Icelandic waters were infested with German so-called "fishing steamers" whose mother ship was the 5,400-ton Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations...