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...socially famed for his discovery that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty window pane." Last spring Aage, weary of Paris, was permitted by the French Government to re-enlist in their blood-&-sandy Foreign Legion, regaining his former rank of captain (TIME, June 27). Last week Danish newspapers excitedly printed a letter from the royal Legionnaire. For once in his life world-weary Aage was aroused, indignant...
...could not at first believe reports that Trotsky was going to lecture in Denmark," wrote Aage, "but I now see it is true. . . . Has Denmark forgotten that Trotsky was a member of the [Soviet] Government that killed the two sons and the grandchildren of the Danish Princess who be came Empress [Maria Feodorovna of Russia...
Quite possibly Prince Aage spoke for King Christian X, who of course could not openly express the Danish Royal Family's hate & fear of Leon Trotsky. Not merely a practitioner of revolution, the Russian is also its greatest living theorist. As the author of "the theory of permanent revolution," Comrade Trotsky holds that the lower classes are at all times revolting against the upper classes. Naturally Danish Deputies of the Right and Centre took Prince Aage's letter as their cue to heap torrents of abuse on Denmark's bearded Socialist Premier Thorvald Stauning. Premier Stauning retorted...
...records of 1600 pairs of fathers and sons, as well as in comparison of 541 brothers at Harvard. The scope of the study is of great magnitude, involving over 18,000 measurements, and including in its correlations the measurements of Revolutionary soldiers and sailors, the stature of Swiss, Swedish, Danish, Italian and Japanese military...
...favorite role of "Empire Salesman," H. R. H. then opened at Copenhagen the largest British fair ever held among Danes. From London Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, tireless champion of a tariff wall around the Empire, sniped at the Empire Salesman, charged flatly that his Danish trip is "ill advised...