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Show Iceland's "Horse-Sense" Senator Gerald P. Nye. of North Dokota, takes the example of small Iceland, which exists without an army, to ccnaern the "world-mad armament race." Senater Nye considers this "plain everyday hcrse-sense" on the part cf a people w.:o are "not quite so r,ch lemovei from the possibility of foreign attack r.s is the United States." The Senator's remarks look like nonsense to us. With 120,000 people, Iceland nas absolutely no chance to protect itself. Consequently, there .s little use to attempt the" impossible- If a greater naticn decides to acquire Iceland, there is nothing under the sun that t.oe Icelanders can do to prevent it. If the people of the United States are content to be in the same posi-iOin, posi-iOin, then they should fellow the example of the Icelander and the 'plain every-day horse-sense" so greatly admired ty the Senator from North Dokota. We do net believe that the people cf the United States entered the "World's mad armament race" thrcui choice but rather under compulsion and in the necessary preparation for the defence of their country. |