Word: danish
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Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State. Last week both houses of the Danish Parliament gave Premier Stauning what he wanted as an early Christmas present...
Good for one year only, the new legislation makes Minister of Commerce C. N. Hauge virtually Denmark's Tsar of Imports. Advised by 13 representatives of agriculture, commerce and industry, he will dictate the rationing of foreign exchange (through the National Bank) to Danish importers. Thus if a Dane wants to buy a German Mercedes, the Import Tsar at his discretion can block the exchange transaction and may thus switch the sale to another country, by intimating for example that he would facilitate the purchase of a British Rolls-Royce...
...socially famed for his discovery that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty window pane." Last spring Aage, weary of Paris, was permitted by the French Government to re-enlist in their blood-&-sandy Foreign Legion, regaining his former rank of captain (TIME, June 27). Last week Danish newspapers excitedly printed a letter from the royal Legionnaire. For once in his life world-weary Aage was aroused, indignant...
...could not at first believe reports that Trotsky was going to lecture in Denmark," wrote Aage, "but I now see it is true. . . . Has Denmark forgotten that Trotsky was a member of the [Soviet] Government that killed the two sons and the grandchildren of the Danish Princess who be came Empress [Maria Feodorovna of Russia...
Quite possibly Prince Aage spoke for King Christian X, who of course could not openly express the Danish Royal Family's hate & fear of Leon Trotsky. Not merely a practitioner of revolution, the Russian is also its greatest living theorist. As the author of "the theory of permanent revolution," Comrade Trotsky holds that the lower classes are at all times revolting against the upper classes. Naturally Danish Deputies of the Right and Centre took Prince Aage's letter as their cue to heap torrents of abuse on Denmark's bearded Socialist Premier Thorvald Stauning. Premier Stauning retorted...