> Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply.
> One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.
I don’t know if your history books are correct… in WWII, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany and Finland was even allied with them against the Soviet Union before the Soviets forced Finland to drive the Nazis out of the country.
Iceland was invaded by a foreign power (the UK) during WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Iceland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland
(Very politely, but still...)
> Uncomfortable with the crowd, Consul Shepherd turned to the Icelandic police. "Would you mind ... getting the crowd to stand back a bit, so that the soldiers can get off the destroyer?" he asked. "Certainly," came the reply.
> One Icelander snatched a rifle from a marine and stuffed a cigarette in it. He then threw it back to the marine and told him to be careful with it. An officer arrived to scold the marine.
I don’t know if your history books are correct… in WWII, Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany and Finland was even allied with them against the Soviet Union before the Soviets forced Finland to drive the Nazis out of the country.