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...sight that might make any monarch quail last week faced Denmark's tall, saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage...
Indulgent, the Danish judge released Clifton from custody. When the frokener raised a clamor, policemen shushed them. Next day Clifton moped while a Royal automobile flanked by a company of His Majesty's Guards carried the U. S. Minister to Castle Amalienborg. After presenting credentials to King Christian X, Mr. Booth was presented to Queen Alexandrine...
...royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the British King-Emperor George V, of Danish King Christian...
Later in the day the King and Queen motored into Copenhagen to receive at the Amalienborg Palace he congratulations of various deputations from their loyal subjects. Some of these loyal subjects had wished to buy the King and Queen a summer palace on the island of Funen, but King Christian, hearing of the plan, suggested that such a gift would hardly be in keeping with ;he times, and that anyway he had more castles than he could afford to maintain...