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Best possible proof that Denmark is an excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
...rnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back to his German birthplace only to show off his Danish wife, asked and got the backing of U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins in Berlin, who protested last week to the German Ministry of Justice...
...terms in the House. In 1933 President Roosevelt made her the first woman to represent the U. S. at a foreign capital. Speculation centered last week on the social difficulties of the bride's prospective position in Copenhagen as U. S. Minister and wife of a Danish subject. Unless it proposed to separate husband & wife at court dinners, the Danish Foreign Office would apparently have to choose between insulting the U. S. by seating its representative as Kammerjunkerinde, or insulting the envoys of other nations by seating the Kammerjunker above them. Minister Owen soon solved this diplomatic stickler...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks did not have to be told that its author was pernickety. But when they heard that he was being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember...
...Whim, Not only the new Lifeline of Empire preoccupied Sir Samuel Hoare last week. Adolf Hitler was off on his white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...