Religion: Icelandic Visitor

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...

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