859A.00/102: Telegram
The Chargé in Iceland (Warner) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:04 p.m.]
419. Legation’s 409, August 8, 3 p.m. The Prime Minister has again solicited the good offices of the Legation with a view to expediting the receipt of any observations which the Department may care to make and which he is most anxious to have at the earliest possible moment because of the short parliamentary session. For the Department’s information the question of the immediate severance of the union before the expiration of the treaty appears in no way to be a vital or pressing popular issue but since each party has publicly come out for it no one alone can afford politically to change its declared position.