U. S. Coup in Iceland Nazis Claim Seizure First Action Of Almost All Area Under Reds Got Since '39

By tht Ai»octat«d Presi. Emergency Decree BERLIN, July 8.—The Ger- man Army In two weeks fight- of ing has seized nearly all the Occupying Approach territory’ Soviet Russia has ac- To Hemisphere Called quired since September 17, 1939. D N.B., the official news agency, Defense Measure said yesterday. It listed German gains as the By BLAIR BOLLES. Western Ukraine, Western Icelanders consider their country White Russia, Bessarabia. a part of Europe. This point of Northern Bucovina, Lithuania view is iterated time and again in and Latvia—a total area larger the handbook published at Reykja- than all Germany as reduced by vik on the 50th anniversary of Na- the treaty of Versailles. was tional Bank of Iceland, which the Post-Versailles Germany Danish Legation keeps in its li- about 182.000 square miles. brary here. American geographers regard Iceland simply as a North West Will Be Inducted Atlantic island, without reference to continents. So it is moot whether Millard F. West, jr., newlv yesterday's landing of United States elected president of the Washington naval forces in Iceland constitutes Junior Board of Commerce, will be Inducted Into office at a luncheon an American invasion of Europe. of the Thurs- Whatever it is, European Arctic, meeting organization He succeeds Harold D. Western Hemispheric, or independ- day. Fang- ent, Iceland traditionaly is closely boner in the office. attached to the New World. For Leif the Ericsson, pre-Columbian TO DINE. Viking discoverer of America, was _WHERE the son of a fugitive from Iceland to Greenland, Eric the Red. The eaga of Eric the Red reports in wild verse that Leif made his way to what he called Vinland, proba- bly Labrador or Nova Scotia, about ICELAND, NOW AMERICA S FARTHEST ATLANTIC OUTPOST—This is Reykjavik, capital of Eventually this Canadian motorized unit in Iceland will be replaced by American troops. the 1000 year A D. Iceland, where American naval forces landed yesterday. Fifteen miles up the bay In the back- The Canadians have been there since May, 1940, emplaced to Insure that Iceland remains in If Iceland is east of the Western ground. the Faxafloi, is a deep naval anchorage which the British have been developing for British control for use as a naval base. The Island has become a veritable fortress, with 70,000 Hemisphere, the dispatch of the more than a at From it naval contingent to Iceland is his- year, Hvalfjord. Americcan naval vessels are expected to patrol the troops, and the 115,870 Inhabitants have been growing rich. —Wide World Photos. toric. It marks the first action shipping lanes between America and England. taken under the doctrine set forth *-—--- by President Roosevelt in his un- land planes. Seaplanes can operate Iceland hai figured In tha prograss moet««t men" has Iceland. A great limited emergency speech of May from Faxafloi. To the west there of the war. The blockade of conti- rAval force might wrest It from the 27, when he said that "control or Is a lonely lowland valley fronted nental Europe extends to Iceland, United States, were It not for the Rx. FOR THAT occupation by Nazi forces of any at the sea a which sits and the shipping routes to Britain fact that Great Britain can dis- LAGGING of the islands of the Atlantic would by snowcap a from the United States and Canada a naval to area • * • along bay called the Heradsfloi. patch great force the jeopardize the ultimate safety APPETITE Here airmen could keep a watch on skirt Iceland waters. Those waters herself. of the Continental United States j A twfnt*-flTe minute drier to the East, toward Norway, 1.000 are mined, and the German ccun- Brook farm add unlimited Itself.'’ Defense of the Western portion* of leisure on Brook miles where Nazi are terblockade operates within them. away, planes Farm lawn* one heaping Hemisphere, in other words, means based. The sinking of the Hood and the Chauffeur Checks Up measure of ro«l country hreere* the defense of the to Mix well and take with the kind approaches Inhabitants Literate. beginning of the chase of the Bis- the of dinner that ran he rooked hemisphere. marck in the strait west of On Man only in a real, old-time* coun- For the American mil- began Garage Has Bond sightseeing try kitchen Sunday and daily* with America. Iceland that separates it Irom 115 the Associated Press. itary men, Reykjavik is interesting except Monday. Iceland's ancient Greenland. devotion to as the most northern capital of a SPARTANBURG, S. C.—A garage The President's her a speech of May 27 political liberty gives bond country in the world, but a small man told a chauffeur that the new with the contained a strong bint that the United States. The Al- town 20 miles to the east, Thing- United States would enter ires on his automobile were not en- thing, the Icelandic is sur- Iceland, Farm for | Brook parliament, vellir. outshines Reykjavik the oldest which Mr. Roosevelt mentionea ! .irely “balanced” but that would not representative assembly- scenery and historic in- 6501 Brookiillc Road rounding twice name. In same in the world. It by that speech oe Cor. Tailor C’h i h Md. dates from 930. a terest. For one thing, the village noticeable until speeds of 65 or 70 St., when the Mr. Roosevelt spoke with satisfac- \ O'.t Connecttcnf Are to Chevy year continent of Europe sits in the midst of a pano- miles an hour were attained. majestic tion of the of the e right St was wedded to with rule of operation Navy feudalism, rama that includes the lake A few minutes later a State pa- Urn A f*.*f lejl turn ta.'o B oot- of the patrols on the Atlantic in behalf of idle Road people by dukes and kings Thingvalla, the waterfall of Oxara trolman stopped the chauffeur while keeping shipping lanes open to Brit- J/ t*H lSCOSSI\ 4.'66 and hereditary robber barons. and the lava pile of Almannagja. ! he was 74 miles an hour. ain. The occupation of Iceland and traveling Iceland, with 115.870 inhabitants, For another thing, Thingvellir was “Next time.” the chauffeur told the the extension of the patrols are Is an island the size of Kentucky, the of Iceland for centuries magistrate. "Use going to let that capital i linked. heaved up from the ocean floor by ! —from 930 to 1798. The members I garage fellow’ balance them tires.” successive volcanic eruptions and of the Althing met outdoors at Vital Link for Convoys, it is a earthquakes. Geologically, Thingvellir in the summer. Hvalfjord, Iceland, now can be- baby, born in the Its tertiary period. The fishermen and shepherds who come a base of operation for the upper tip, Cape Rifstongi, scrapes live on this wild dot of earth are a patrols. Iceland can make the the cold Arctic while its Circle, literate folk. One of their chiefs question of convoys a dead issue. southern and western shores are long ago wrote one of the world's With American ships based at Ice- washed the Gulf stream. by warming of literature, the prose land the seas | great pieces Iceland lies in a of the ocean. Just south of her lies the arc of combing between 1 strategic part uppermost But polar ice, not far away, spreads Edda." describing the lives of the Iceland and Scotland for P. | daily sight » chill over the island which will was the great circle shipping lane Joining Britain and America. A. Wirephoto. Kings of Norway. The author I of German submarines, convoys make the American sailors there Snorri Sturluson, who was born in would be unnecessary. Convoys are realize are they living in a far 1179 and was murdered in 1241. He far than come an end. ^ On 16. less efficient patrols when Northern clime. The Culdees had moved northward monwealth had to camp. April 1940. Iceland, average July built a bathing place of stones in patrols can cover mile of the across the open sea to make their The practical rule of Iceland was which was represented here until every temperature is 51.6 degrees Fahren- his of Revkiaholt. and it still town homes transferred to Denmark in the Minister from Denmark, oceans. heit. Far to the west, in the same in that cold place. 1280. then by stands, known to this day as Snor- The closest German strengtn to is Alaska. Most of the colonists were Nor- and the tie to Denmark was severed requested the State Department for latitude, Nome. Iceland is at miles ralaug. but a considerable number on the of direct Norway, 1,000 It is a country of moun- wegians, only May 16, 1941. exchange representa- rough An Icelander of today can read the distant, a long trip for an 3irplane. fierce winter came from England Ireland, Scot- tives between Iceland and the tains, winds, great than we can Iceland became a kingdom, ruled Iceland s “Edda" more easily United States. As a Thor place on the globe, far snow fiplds and ancient culture. land and the Hebrides. :The physical result, read so little by the monarch in Copenhagen, out in the ocean, makes it Shakespeare, change characteristics of the are Thors represents Iceland as consul unlikely Only about one-fourteenth of the people by the Act of Union of November has there been in the language dur- in New and Bertel that it will ever be a Crete, invaded whole island is habitable, the low- j tall and slender stature, long face, j general York, the centuries. Icelandic is the I 30. 1918. From 1918 to 1941, then, or lor Ice- ing backward-sloping forehead and E Kuniholm represents the United by parachutists gliders. lands along the shore. The high- in Iceland was part of a co-kingdom, land. it holds lhat oldest modem language Europe. The hair is darker than States as consul in Reykjavik. probably true lands are studded with light eyes. but a state. After the volcanoes, It w-as spoken throughout the whole sovereign “whoever gets there fust with the over 20 of which have dur- the blond Norwegians. *0.000 British erupted of Scandinavia about the time when German occupation of Denmark on Troops There. ing the 1.065 years Iceland has been Long Tie With Denmark. the link between Iceland was colonized, when people April 9, 1940, May 10. 1940. Great Britain took inhabitated by men who rec- The first 60 years of Scandinavian and existed kept in England were speaking Saxon and Reykjavik Copenhagen over the custody of Iceland “until ords. Most of the volcanic moun- colonization w'as irregular and on The in people in America were speaking in only paper. Althing May, the conclusion of the hostilities.” tains are situated in the south.1 straggling and the colonists were 1940, declared that so as the any number of Indian tribal dia- long Iceland's defense force amounted to whence a volcanic chain extends ! disunited. At last in 930 the of Denmark lects. It has always been a literary occupation continued, about 70 policemen. By now the northward across the eastern of Althing was established, the Ice- it would consider the relation be- part language, and from that fact has j British have 70.000 or 80 000 troops the highlands to the Myvatn in andic Commonwealth was organ- tween the two countries in suspen- come its uniformity. there, which. Mr. Roosevelt told the north. The most laws were invoked for famous vol- j ized, Ulfljot's j sion. A year later the Althing Congress, are to be replaced by cano is Mount Compulsory Schools Since 1907. and the island Hekla. the whole country adopted a declaration of inde- Americans. The British have been school attendance in became an Flatland for Airfields, Since 1907 orderly-run independent pendence. raising fortifications and building Iceland has been for all nation. The Icelanders have made the compulsory Almost at once after the Danish a strong naval anchorage around between 10 and and Accumulation of most of their lowlands, where the children 14, political power j occupation the first step was taken the Hvalfjord. 15 miles north of is unknown there. In in a few of each I principal economy is sheep-raising. illiteracy persons jealous which by now has placed Iceland Reykjavik on the Faxafloi. the island 1 From the earliest times, however, i some of the most thinly populated other, however, plunged deeply in the Anglo-American Since the arrival of the British, the chief pursuit of these people regions there are so-called movable into a period of bloody feuding, j has been fishing, w-ith cod and her- schools, where the same teacher which King Hakon Hakonarson ring the main catch. Fish provide ambulates between two or three made the excuse for extending his i Iceland with her commercial life- localities at different seasons of the control from the mainland over the line to the outer world. Before the year. In 1911 the University of Ice- ! island. In 1262 he persuaded the Icelandic nation to take the oath w-ar began, Great Britain w-as her land was established. For years it best cod and herring customer, with met in the Parliament houses be- of allegiance to him, and the com- Portugal next, Spain third and cause it had no headquarters of its Sweden fourth. own, but since 1933 a lottery has The greatest spread of lowlands1 been in progress to raise a building is on the western side of Iceland, fund. Dr. John J. Field We a ™ Britain! toward America and Iceland was discovered by the ::"S facing away1 Convoyed Bargain FromI =V. 'Sia •* X. be- from Europe. Reykjavik, the cap- I Scandinavians about 1.100 years DENTIST ital of Iceland and its main city, fore it was discovered by the Amer- 406 7th ST. N.W. MEt. 9256 as , had 34.231 inhabitants in 1935. ican naval expedition. The date was And the Price Is Exciting Reykjavik sits on the southw'estern around 840 or 850, although long be- i Third Floor, Woclworth Building corner of Faxafloi, Iceland's longest fore then, some unknown year, Irish gulf and a good, ample harbor lor as the Trip! 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