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Died. Prince Aage of Denmark, 52, veteran officer in the French Foreign Legion; after brief illness; in Taza, French Morocco. Cousin of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Constantine of Greece, he renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he was 26. Said he then: "It wasn't such a sacrifice...
...From Copenhagen to Finland went 62-year-old Colonel Valdemar Tretow Loof, who had just resigned from the Danish Army, to take command of 600 Danes already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting...
Correspondents rushed to Stockholm, scenting a crisis. A Danish correspondent telephoned his paper: "The new European religion of fatalism has seized Sweden. No one doubts that the situation contains serious dangers. This does not mean that the danger is unavoidable . . . but let it come. Sweden has taken her stand and is remaining there...
...parts of the Danish people agree that the country's neutrality must be maintained and that all disposable means shall be used if necessary to . . . protect the realm's peace and independence...
Though he lives in Germany and sings in the U. S., tenants of the Ansonia do not need to be reminded that Heldentenor Melchior is a Dane. Melchior himself never forgets it either. On his island castle in Germany he always flies the Danish flag. And on the door of his Manhattan apartment is a sign. It reads: "Lauritz Melchior, singer to the Royal Court of Denmark...