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...have had their independence from Denmark for only twelve years, have no army of their own and dislike having foreign troops around. Iceland has no intention of closing Keflavik air base, feels simply that it can handle the NATO base with less U.S. help. Progressive Leader Hermann ("The Wrestler") Jonasson, who will probably head a coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does not object to the continued presence of U.S. technicians. Iceland, just...
Next day at mid-afternoon Franklin Roosevelt sent his message to Congress, transmitting a note from Hermann Jonasson, Prime Minister of Iceland, and his reply. He told the Congress...
...republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...
...white & blue. This time King Christian had made a Slesvig - Holsten -Sonderborg -Glikksborg family party of it, bringing his retiring German Queen Alexandrine, his second son Prince Knud and Knud's cousin-wife Princess Caroline Mathilde. Chief greeter was Iceland's 35-year-old Premier Hermann Jonasson, who led his Icelandic sovereign to a round of dinners, automobile trips, state council meetings and the signing of six years' laws...
...carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President Webb made a speech about oldtime Merchant Montgomery Ward's foresight in planting his plant beside the water...