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...Republic, and he directs the Research and Information Bureau of the Danish Information Service...
Although the Danes ended their resistance to the Nasis soon after their country was invaded, Danish skies glow nightly with fires and explosions wreck rail lines and shipping centers. This is the epic Hasselriis will relate in his Tuesday talk...
Very popular among his countrymen before the war, this Dane has of late become closely associated with Henrick de Kauffmann, Danish Minister who may be one of the men who form the nucleus of the Post-war Northern European country's government...
...When the all clear sounded," said a Danish worker, "the people came out of the shelters and many were almost naked." The food supply could not be organized at once and people pounced on fruits and vegetables outside or inside shops. Thirsty people besieged a truck from a fish market and drank the water dripping from the ice inside the fish boxes...
...appeasement and paid Olaf, predecessor of Sweyn, ?10,000 to give up his first raid. After that Aethelred paid consecutively ?16,000, ?24,000, and finally ?36,000, but when the price of peace reached ?48,000 Aethelred collected a great fleet, ordered a general massacre of the Danish fifth column, and decreed a great levy of troops-his idea of selective service. Politics and traitorous quarrels disrupted the navy and the army; so that Sweyn overran England while Aethelred fled. The policy of opportunism had paved the path for William the Conqueror...