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FDR: “We would work for the complete independence of what is the Iceland, not of today but of a thousand years back.”

On the recordAugust 23, 1944
We would work for the complete independence of what is the Iceland, not of today but of a thousand years back.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Toast at a State Dinner for the President of Iceland

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