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...Iceland knew that practically nobody in Iceland wanted to remain a vassal of the Dutch crown - particularly since old King Christian X, from Nazi-held Copenhagen, had stiffly told the Icelanders to mind their independent ways (TIME, May 15). The referendum on independence was a mere formality. In Reykjavik (the capital) alone, the vote...
Farthest Is Nearest. Icelanders know that they must lean on a strong, good-neighborly power. The British Isles are only 700 miles away. But the U.S., whose troopships steamed 2,300 miles to Reykjavik's cobblestoned levees in 1941, is closer in other ways. Naturally Iceland does not like the presence of strangers. But the U.S. has demonstrated neighborliness by trying to keep things on a guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish...
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...
Bishop Gunnarsson got his early schooling from Icelandic Jesuits, continued it in Lutheran Denmark, later studied theology in Holland. Ordained in 1924, he returned to Reykjavik, took up his priestly duties at the Cathedral, which is the size of a U. S. Catholic parish church. There he will be enthroned when he returns from the U. S. shortly...
Humphrey and Frank L. Miller, ten other Army officers and men. All were buried last Saturday in the American cemetery at Reykjavik...