On December 10, 1906 the president of the United States was awarded the Nobel Prize prize for peace. It was a controversial award. The award represents the unique time in history, the complex legacy of the nations twenty-sixth president, and the persistent disagreement over an award for peace given in a world where reality makes peace uncommon at best.
The allied occupation of Iceland was almost bizarrely cordial, and became even stranger when the neutral state officially requested to be occupied by the United States, at the time also neutral.