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...wished the newsmen ranged about him would quit trying to make him a hero. He wished they would not refer to his arrival that day by flying boat from Germany as a "transatlantic flight." He wished they would not ask him lor the101st time if the route via Iceland and Greenland, which he had surveyed thrice in three years, were "feasible." Above all he wished they would leave so he might go to bed. As if to persuade them that he really was not worth so much fuss, he said...
Most important difference was that while Capt. von Gronau had to slip furtively westward from Iceland in 1930 without even confiding his destination to his wife or crew, for fear his government would forbid the venture, he now has government sponsorship for surveying the intercontinental route...
...route from the U. S., the Michigan-Pan American Airways Greenland Expedition. Also last week Transamerican Airlines, which had begun tentative surveys of the northern air passage to Europe (TIME, April 25), surrendered to Pan American its active interest in the route, including an exclusive concession in Iceland. Apparent reason: Pan American is better geared by structure and experience for international enterprise, has working arrangements with the big transport lines of Europe...
While routes were being discussed, proponents of the North Atlantic route were heavily outnumbered, partly because those who had flown it were not all eager to do it again. Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau (North Sea-U. S. 1930, 1931) was enthusiastic over the Iceland-Greenland route, as was Navigator Gatty; but Capt Hermann Koehl (Ireland-Greeneley Island 1928) wanted no more of that part of the ocean. Neither did Jean Assolant (Maine-Spain...
Last fortnight Denmark refused Transamerican Airlines concessions for bases on its Eskimo colony, Greenland (TIME, April 18). That this implied a breakdown of the project was denied by company officials; negotiations would be continued, they said. But the Parliament of the Kingdom of Iceland (whose king is big King Christian X of Denmark) did not refuse to grant a 75-year franchise to Transamerican when Judge Gudmunder Crimson of Rugby, N. Dak., who in 1930 represented his State at the millennial of the founding of the Icelandic parliament, intervened. Judge Grimson went to Copenhagen to plead with the King...