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Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid, escorted across the North Sea by three British destroyers, arrived in England for the first state visit by a Danish sovereign since 1914. After a Buckingham Palace banquet and a Guildhall luncheon, King Frederik was host at a Danish embassy party where he calmly broke tradition by smoking during dinner, was calmly imitated by his guest of honor, King George VI. Frederik, proud of his un-kingly tattooed dragons and birds, picked up during his navy days, also had time to phone his "compliments" to an old friend, British Physical Training Instructor...
Newest member of the plug lobby is the U.N.'s Mogens Skot-Hansen, a hustling Danish moviemaker, who persuaded a producer to make Dorothy McGuire a U.N. translator in Mister 880 ("She is a nice good girl and gives us a good name"). Thanks to his efforts, Bing Crosby, playing a journalist in the forthcoming Here Comes the Groom, will be shown at work on a story about U.N. relief work; Joseph Cotten, cast as a doctor in Peking Express, will be working for the U.N.'s World Health Organization; in The Day the Earth Stood Still...
...speakers will include Tom Callahan, N.S.A. travel director, Peter Zuntz, from the Danish International Student Committee; Jose Vose, for the Netherlands; John Harrison from Great Britain; and Robert Tesdill, director of the Council on Student Travel...
Hans Lunding, a Danish political prisoner, had a cell next to Canaris at Flossenburg prison. One day Canaris was led away for questioning. When he returned, the admiral raised his heavily chained arms and in the international code tapped out on the wall: "Bridge of my nose broken. My time is up. Send love to my wife." Next morning Lunding heard an SS man bark: "Strip off all clothes." Canaris, stripped, was led out never to return. (To humiliate the high officers in the plot, the Nazis stripped them, strangled many slowly with piano wire...
Denmark: Spending 20% for defense. Under arms: 23,000 men, home guard of 30,000. Available to NATO: 1,000 men. Equipment: more Danish-made machine guns on hand than Danes can use, but other equipment inadequate. Morale: excellent...