Word: reykjavik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vikings all ready to blossom out as diplomats when the foreign affairs of Iceland are taken out of the hands of the Danish Foreign Office. Iceland refused to join the League of Nations, chiefly because Denmark was a member, but there are no really hard feelings between Copenhagen and Reykjavik. Icelanders say handsomely of King Christian that His Majesty is "less unpopular in Iceland than any other Danish sovereign has ever been...
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...