Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"The people of Iceland hold a proud position among the democracies of the world, with a historic tradition of freedom and of individual liberty which is more than a thousand years old."

"It is essential that Germany should not be able successfully to employ such tactics through sudden seizure of strategic points in the South Atlantic and in the North Atlantic."

"It is the announced policy of the Government of the United States to undertake to join with the other Nations of the Western Hemisphere in the defense of the New World against any attempt at aggressio..."

"This Government will insure the adequate defense of Iceland with full recognition of the independence of Iceland as a sovereign state."