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Early this week Franklin Roosevelt moved the U.S. squarely into the Battle of the Atlantic. In Reykjavik, U.S. naval forces had landed, and Iceland was in hand (see p. 17). From where they were New York was 3,900 miles away, but Norway's Nazi-occupied Bergen was only 1,800 miles, Scotland's port of Glasgow only 1,600 miles, and Berlin a mere 2,800 miles as the bomber flies. The Western Hemisphere had stretched once more. The President had taken another great step...
...stolid statesmen of Reykjavik, measured and dignified in all things, erected their new order with utmost constitutional correctness. Until a 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...
...State Department, which has devoted a lot of thought to Iceland lately, showed instant signs of appreciation. The State Department announced that a new vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known as a highly efficient fellow who has turned in excellent reports from all his posts, last of which was at the U.S. Legation in Managua, Nicaragua...
Soldiers were not admitted into Iceland homes. Reykjavik, which was supposed to boast that law & order were natural to it, called up an unprecedented police force of 65 men. Icelandic workmen charged the invaders high wages...
...this uncordiality, said the soldiers, was the result of patiently spread German propaganda to the effect that Iceland and Germany were brother States. Three years ago Poet Auden reported seeing Herman Goring's brother in Reykjavik and hearing that Nazi Mystagogue Alfred Rosenberg was soon to come. British found large areas where the shale had been scraped away apparently for landing fields. The occupation of Iceland, uncongenial though it might be, seemed worth the price as a preventive...