UN General Assembly
1959

Ever since the end of the last century, the waters off our coast have been visited by swarms of United Kingdom trawlers that have scraped the bottom of the sea almost up to the doors of our poor fishermen's humble homes. However, we were supposed to have territorial waters up to three miles, and in 1952 we extended our fishery limits up to four miles, after our Norwegian brother nation had won its case about the four-mile limit before the International Court of Justice, which move the United Kingdom had challenged. The dominant circles of Hull and Grimsby then put a ban on the landing of Icelandic fish anywhere in the United Kingdom. This can only have been intended for the purpose of forcing us into submission, but the Icelanders are, I am proud to say, an independent and persevering people, and the United Kingdom finally had to give up the ban and their frustrated efforts after four years.