Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt was to clear the canal. Arriving in Cairo with 19 other experts under U.N. auspices, Lieut. General Raymond A. Wheeler, U.S.A. (ret.) drew up plans to turn over the job to a consortium of three U.S., Danish and Dutch firms. When the British and French protested at exclusion of the 18-ship salvage fleet that was already at work raising wrecks at Port Said, General Wheeler cautiously suggested that six of Britain's salvage ships might be used-without their British crews. This was too much for First Lord of the Admiralty Viscount Hailsham who huffed that Wheeler...
...something strange to see-an unwieldy hodgepodge of Scandinavian and Colombian infantry, Indian paratroopers, Yugoslav reconnaissance troops and Canadian headquarters personnel-yet the world's first international police force, taking form in Egypt last week, became from the outset a real instrument of power. Danish riflemen a little sheepishly took up buffer positions between the Egyptian and Anglo-French lines at El Cap, about 27 miles south of Port Said, and this week Norwegian and Danish troops are scheduled to relieve the Anglo-French forces of control of a large part of Port Said. Close to 2,700 officers...
...sooner the British and French left the sooner the U.N. could get on with its other avowed task in Egypt, clearing the Suez Canal. Late last week the first of a fleet of Dutch and Danish salvage vessels began to move toward Egypt. To handle financing of the estimated $40 million clearance operations, Hammarskjold called on Manhattan Banker John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. To oversee technical operations, he drafted Lieut. General (ret.) Raymond A. Wheeler, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Engineers. For the 71-year-old Wheeler, canals are an old story...
Died. Mrs. Else F. Schlemmer, petite, fiftyish, Danish-born widow of William F. Schlemmer, longtime (1916-45) owner of Hammacher Schlemmer, Manhattan's classy housewares knickknack (sea-urchin paste, bronze fig leaves for statues) dispensary, who took over the firm, ran it for eight years after her husband's death, in 1952 named more than 100 store employees in her sizable will; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...defeating the Menon resolution vanished. By a vote of 63 to 5, with ten abstentions, the resolution passed. A few minutes later the Assembly, by an even more one-sided vote (65 to 0 with nine abstentions), authorized Hammarskjold to continue the negotiations he had begun with Dutch and Danish firms for clearance of the Suez Canal. With this vote went all Anglo-French hopes of getting the canal open on their own terms...