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...Biggest Danish industry is the curing, slicing, packing, exporting of bacon. Last week Denmark's big bacon men closed all the nation's bacon factories, tried to force their help to accept a 20% wage cut. Copenhagen papers accused "Fascist elements" among the bacon men of a daring, underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
...Danish assistant manager in a railroad's land department...
Over his Eskimos bushy-bearded Danish Premier Theodore A. M. Stauning broods as anxiously as any hen over her chicks. Last week Herre Stauning's Cabinet again upheld his slogan "Greenland for the Eskimos!" (TIME, March 23 & June 8, 1931), rejected an application from Transamerican Airlines Corp. for a concession to establish transatlantic flying bases in Greenland and at Copenhagen. (Three times larger than the Kingdom of Denmark is its Eskimo-infested colony Great Greenland...
Tenor Althouse sang first. He wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still...
There were cheers (at last) for Russia's Foreign Minister who always used to be hissed or ignored (TIME, May 6, 1929, et seq.). Only Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Munch had the courage to drag Reparations into the Conference, and also tariffs. He flayed both as potential war causes...