Lögberg-Heimskringla - 08.12.1960, Page 3

LÖGBERG-HEIMSKRINGLA, FIMMTUDAGINN 8. DESEMBER 1960
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lcelandic Close
By a Northern Reader
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ÞJÓÐRÆKNISFÉLAG ISLENDINGA 1 VESTURHEIMI
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MR. GCÐMANN LEVT,
ÍSK Lindsay Street, Winnipeg 9, Manltoba.
On the 19th May, 1960, the
Mayor and Mayoress of
Reykjavik came as honoured
guests of the Lord Mayor of
Hull .The occasion was open-
ing ceremony, performed by
the Mayor of Reykjavik, of
the twenty-seven bungalows
known as “Icelandic Close”,
and which have largely been
built by funds collected in
Iceland
The funds were collected in
1947. Iceland has had a long
friendship with Hull, and felt
concern for the heavy bomb-
ing which had destroyed so
much of the city. A subscrip-
tion fund was raised, up and
down Iceland people contrib-
uted, and eventually £20,000
was handed to the Hull Cor-
poration. This was invested,
until such time as a suitable
site presented itself; it gained
£8,000 in interest, and the Cor-
poration providing another
£10,000, these twenty-seven
bungalows were recently com-
pleted. They are allotted to
aged fishermen, or to the
widows of fishermen.
. The simple ceremony when
the Mayor of Reykjavik made
a short speech and unveiled
the plaque was very moving,
the lady presenting a bouquet
to the mayoress being a wid-
ow who lost her husband off
Iceland many years ago.
Everything was done by the'
Hull Corporation to express
their friendship, and the func-
tion in the Guild Hall presided
over by the Lord Mayor was
most enjoyable. Those present
felt they had taken part in a
very lovely piece of history.
This received no publicity
in Grimsby. It is understood,
of course, that Grimsby and
Hull are trade rivals; but
nevertheless, apart from the
rightful cementing of good re-
lations between Iceland and
Hull which perhaps Grimsby
did not wish to enlarge on,
it was a matter of such news
value that it is difficult to
understand the complete boy-
cott of it in the newspaper.
The Grimsby paper appears
to find it much more appro-
priate to print long descrip-
tions of alleged incidents at
sea, which can be damaging
to Anglo - Icelandic goodwill.
In the past few weeks three
such incidents have been re-
ported in great detail — a
gunboat boarding a British
trawler and the naval frigate
coming up with truncheons
etc., and the latest, a Grimsby
skipper alleging that an Ice-
landic flying-boat fired at
him, when he was repairing
his gear inside the twelve-
mile limit. It is notable that
in both instances reports were
only made after the return
to Grimsby, one seven days
and the other ten days later.
Ill-will is being stirred up,
while so fine and momentous
an event as that in Hull was
not mentioned. This, of course,
is in preparation for the nor-
mal Icelandic landings in the
autumn. They have never
brought any fish here during
the summer months. The
trawler-owners, skippers and
mates have long exhibited a
deep-seated hostility.
The local press in these days
is often controlled from Lon-
don, whose syndicated articles
it has to print; but it does have
a little amount of freedom for
local matters. The Hull cere-
monies were widely reportéd
in the Hull Daily Mail, the
Yorkshire Post and most of
the national papers; but be-
cause of the reasons given,
and also because Hull and
Grimsby each maintain that
she is completely indifferent
to what takes place on the op-
posite side of the Humber, it
was not regarded in Grimsby
as news worth reporting.
The London “Daily Tele-
graph” may often be found to
give a more accurate foreign
news coverage than any other
paper.
What happened in Grimsby
was a crude example of the
censorship exercised not only
by the British Press but by
the Press generally; and
events in Icelandic waters are
a small-scale edition of the
world drama, a cold war in
miniature.
The basic cause seems to be
the hostility of the big trawl-
er-owning syndicates, than
which nothing could be more
different from the old-fash-
ioned British fishing industry.
ín them money speaks, and
speaks so loudly that they
dared to commandeer the
British Navy as a protection.
Það eru til margs konar
tegundir af hinum svoköll-
uðu „fóbíum“, sem eru reynd-
ar ekki annað en nafn á ým-
is konar hræðslu manna við
mismunandi hluti. Sumir
þjást af innilokunarkennd,
aðrir af því andstæða, enn
aðrir eru hræddir við að fara
upp á há hús, af því að þeir
halda að þeir muni detta og
svo framvegis.
Einkennilegt tilfelli kom
fyrir á Englandi fyrir ekki
löngu. Þar varð að leggja 37
ára gamla konu í sjúkrahús,
vegna þess að hún var svo
hrædd við ketti. Hræðsla
hennar hafði byrjað þegar í
barnæsku. Nú var hún orðin
svo illa haldin, að hún gat
ekki einu sinni snert skinn,
ef það minnti hana á kattar-
skinn. Hún æpti ef hún sá
kött á dyraþrepinu hjá sér.
This is a matter in which
our British Government could
well set an example of fair-
dealíng by direct negotiation
with the Icelandic Govern-
ment, without reference to
World opinion, Russian or
otherwise; at one time such
an agreement would have
been made without delay.
❖ * ❖
Since the above article was
written, the truce, due to ex-
pire on August 12th, has been
renewed for a further period.
The "Times" says (August
6th) “A new Minister of Agri-
culture and Fisheries has re-
cently been appointed, and it
is only fair that he should be
given the opportunity to re-
solve the problem.”
The point at issue is a mat-
ter of life and death to the
Icelanders, and the British
public owe no gratitude to the
trawlers’ monopoly. We were
therefore pleased to read in
the Grimsby Evening Tele-
graph of 19th Juiy that a top
skipper of the Kingston Steam
Trawling Company, Ltd., had
been suspended by his firm
from sailing for three months
after being involved in an in-
cident in Icelandic waters.
This follows allegations that
he was fishing illegally inside
the 12-mile limit, and was the
subject of a Note handed to
the British Ambassador by
the Icelandic Foreign Min-
ister.
The same newspaper re-
ported, a few days earlier,
how Icelanders had made a
400-mile air trip to get a spare
part for the radar needed by
Skipper Alf Kissack of the
Grimsby trawler S e r r o n .
“They went out of their way
to help us,” said the skipper.
“I think they were very good
in view of the present situa-
tion in Ieeland.”
Housewives Today,
a monthly, published in
Sidcup, Kent, England.
Ef hún fór í heimsókn til
kunningja sinna, varð að taka
alla ketti úr umferð í tæka
tíð áður en hún kom, ef hún
átti ekki að eiga á hættu að
fá áfall. Hún gat ekki hengt
út þvott af hræðslu við að
rekast á kött í garðinum. En
út yfir tók þó, þegar nágrann-
ar hennar í næsta húsi fluttu
burt. Eftir að húsið hafði
staðið autt um nokkurt skeið,
tóku flækingskettir nágrennis
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