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King Frederick VI of Norway & Denmark, having sided with Napoleon, was forced to cede Norway to Sweden. At the peace table it was read, "King Frederick cedes the kingdom of Norway with all its dependencies. ..." A smart Dane put in quickly, "excepting Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland." An Irishman named Edmund Bourke added, "These colonies have never belonged to Norway." In 1814 Norwegians, rankling at Sweden, scarcely noticed the lie or the loss of Greenland. They continued to hunt and seal on its gloomy eastern coast. The Danes claimed only the west coast. Greenland was still anybody's dead...
...this dilemma the CRIMSON, with becoming modesty, wishes to offer a brief proposal, which will solve two problems at a blow. Let Great Britain, in return for a reduction in her debt to this country, cede one of those barren islands in the North Atlantic, which it has been asserted, have no value except in the unlikely event of war. Let the government turn the island over to Mrs. Peabody, and guarantee to keep it barren. There Mrs. Peabody, and for good measure the lame duck dries in Congress, can maintain unhampered their ideal regime, the Sahara of the Boozart...
Secretary Stimson's statement, he says, seems to mean that if the present trouble should end by an agreement whereby China should cede to Japan any rights in Manchuria, the United States, Russia or any other signatory would have a right under the Pact to disregard them, if in its opinion they were acquired by other than pacific means. If this means that a signatory may intervene when the cession is made, and insist that it be modified, that has been done in the past and does not require the Pact of Paris. It was done by the Congress...
...Absurd," "Silly," "Not for Sale," retorted Mexican officials to the Ashurst proposal. Mexico is forbidden by its present Constitution to cede any of its domain to a foreign power...
...seems assured of a final first place in the class C series, after whitewashing the Walkover Club of Brockton on Saturday. The Lincoln's Inn players, in second place, are reasonably secure, but if the Union Boat Club team continues as vulnerable as the Freshman found them, they may cede their third place to the Crimson C players...