Office of the Historian

859A.01/164: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Iceland (Dreyfus 18)

Washington, June 15, 1944.

230. Department’s 221, June 10. The following is the text of the Concurrent Resolution on Iceland which has just been passed unanimously by the Senate:

“Whereas the people of Iceland in a free plebiscite on May 20 to 23, 1944, overwhelmingly approved the constitutional bill passed by the Althing providing for the establishment of a republican form of government; and

Whereas the Republic of Iceland will be formally established on June 17, 1944: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the Congress hereby expresses to the Icelandic Althing, the oldest parliamentary body in the world, its congratulations on the establishment of the Republic of Iceland and its welcome to the Republic of Iceland as the newest republic in the family of free nations.”

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  1. Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr., presented his credentials as Minister to Iceland, June 14, 1944.↩