Denmark's old (73) King Christian, immured in Copenhagen by the Germans, heard that his subjects in Iceland, occupied by U.S. forces, were planning to establish an independent republic.
Forthwith he drafted a rebuke which made no distinction whatever between the occupying Germans and the occupying Yanks. Growled Christian: ". . . Decisions which involve cutting forever connections between Icelandic people and their King should not be realized as long as both Iceland and Denmark are occupied by foreign powers. . . . We cannot acknowledge the change of constitution that the Althing [Icelandic Parliament] and the Icelandic Government have decided upon...