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Denmark. All nine bishops of Danish churches addressed a letter of warning to the Minister of Justice: "Serious tension . . . involves the danger of a violent explosion which would seriously endanger the Danish people. . . ." In many towns schoolchildren formed Churchill Clubs, organized sabotage, filched rifles and other military equipment from German arsenals, distributed illegal newspapers...
...regard it as a war baby too, since his two-year-old plant in New Jersey is 95% engaged on Government contracts. Urbane, hawk-nosed, 61-year-old Sosthenes, who got his name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise his youth. While on a trip to Puerto Rico the local telephone company almost fell into his lap. He went into the telephone business, in 1924 got King...
...Album of Danish Songs (Lauritz Melchior, tenor; Columbia; 4 sides). A group of appealing ditties sung with masculine ardor by the finest of contemporary heroic tenors...
Altogether the six anti-Nazi parties obtained 1,941,600 votes, almost 400,000 more than they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...
...Conservative Party's leader, lion-maned John Christmas Moeller, who made a dramatic escape to England several months ago. His party's 421,050 votes represented the greatest proportionate advance, with a rise of 40%. Commented Mr. Moeller: "I have always said that only 3% of the Danish populations are pro-German...