859A.01/164: Telegram
The Minister in Iceland ( Dreyfus ) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 21—1:20 p.m.]
271. Speaker of joint Althing yesterday read joint resolution of Congress transmitted in Department’s 230 June 15. He said Althing was greatly honored as the United States was the first power to support the re-establishment of the Republic and the first to appoint a special Ambassador for the occasion. He said Althing and nation were very grateful and he would on behalf of the Althing send United States Congress a message of thanks.22 Communists were only members of Althing who did not rise to show their agreement.
- For text of message conveyed to the American Legation at Reykjavik through the Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs in a note dated June 22, 1944, see Department of State Bulletin, July 30, 1944, p. 126.↩