Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later venerable King Gustaf V, 81, was at the Stockholm railway station and Swedish newshawks watched attentively to note how many kisses His Majesty would bestow on his fellow sovereigns Danish King Christian X, 69, and that monarch's brother, Norwegian King Haakon VII, 67. In 1905 Norway abruptly broke away from union with Sweden, electing the Danish "Sailor Prince" Karl to become King of Norway as Haakon VII, and for many years afterward Swedish resentment over this remained keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt...
...week in Stockholm it was already clear that World War II is not going to be any picnic for neutrals, but faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer Finland in resisting the demands of Soviet Russia...
Ambassador Steinhardt left the Kremlin at 3:30 p.m. and one after another in bus-tied the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian ministers with similar notes expressing their Governments' "expectation that nothing will occur which would prevent Finland from continuing independently her neutral position." After this U. S.-Scandinavian buildup, the Finnish Delegation entered the Kremlin punctually at 5 p.m. and Dr. Paasikivi talked behind closed doors for 45 minutes with Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov...
...force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast and one in Norway. Attacking force, according to the British: 50 planes; according to an excited Norwegian fishing boat captain...
...Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...