ICELAND: Nobody's Baby

Iceland has no Army, no Navy, no Air Force, no commercial planes, no railways, no pigs, and no national debt. It has scarcely any trees, grain or vegetables, but abundant pasturage, six sheep to every Icelander and all the fish God sends her poor but industrious and democratic Viking folk to catch.

Last week the 120,000 people of Iceland, who have never wanted any king, were completely undismayed that Adolf Hitler had bagged His Majesty Christian X, King of Denmark and separately King of Iceland. In any case, 1940 is the year long...

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