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...York Stock Exchange traders grabbed for Polish, Serbian, Czech and Danish bonds as if the reconstruction had already begun. In London the trend was even more pronounced: for ?100-par Polish 4½s the price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped...
Behind the fleeing Germans and Italians was a littered trail: ledgers, military manuals, permits for furloughs, letters from home; tins of Danish hams, Norwegian herring, Dutch sausages, French wines, Munich beer; trumpets, tubas, drums (to be used in Rommel's triumphal procession into Alexandria) ; women's underwear, silk stockings, cosmetics; brandy and champagne; arms, cannon, machinery, tanks; trucks trapped by sudden rains that had turned the marshlands around Buqbuq into seas of mud. Beside the coast road lay the German dead, grey faces hidden by the peaked caps of the Afrika Korps. Beside them lay their Italian allies...
...Danish Faarikall. The thatched and whitewashed Danish farms sent their bacon and butter to Germany. The folk schools brayed the teachings of Nietzsche. The quiet of Copenhagen's Wivex coffee house at the entrance to the Tivoli Gardens was broken by the shouts of Nazi officers. Danish chefs no longer cooked their Faarikall, of lamb, cabbage and sour cream...
Fourteen college teams competed at the Coast Guard Academy Saturday and Sunday for the Trophy, which was offered by Captain Knud L. Mansen of the training ship Danmark. Formerly a floating school for Danish naval cadets, the Danmark has been stationed at the academy wharf and is new in the Coast Guard fleet...
Lieut. General William S. Knudsen is a happy man again. The Danish immigrant who rose to be production boss of General Motors but who, as half-boss of the ill-fated OPM, seemed to be a square head in a round hole, is working hard at a job he likes. He knows that what he does is worth while and is appreciated...