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Anders Gram, Danish farmer, had seven children,, was about to have an eighth. The night he should have been home, business took him to the fair. The children were sent to their grandmother's nearby; all the dreadful night long till the end they were out of it, but some of them guessed what was happening, all of them felt it. Mother Anne was having a hard time, had known she was going to, but she would not let them send for the doctor because she had dreamed that would be fatal. Her only helpers were the servants...
...Denmark claims all Greenland, the region of East Greenland has never been thoroughly explored (much less settled) by white men and has long been claimed by Norway (TIME, June 8 et ante). In Copenhagen last week, Norway and all her works were excitedly denounced in both houses of the Danish parliament, the Landsting and the Folketing...
...times as big as Denmark is Denmark's only colony, Greenland. (Iceland is an independent kingdom that merely happens to have the same King as Den-mark.) In recent warm summers parties of Norwegian hunters have made frequent trips to East Greenland, built little shack settlements there. The Danish-Norwegian problem first boiled over more than a month ago when a semi-official Norwegian body known as the Arctic Council suddenly announced that Denmark was about to send an expedition to explore East Greenland, sounded an alarm that the time had come for Norway to stake and beflag...
...this alarm the Norwegian Government remained deaf, ostensibly at least, thus conciliating the Danish Government. Not so certain patriotic Norwegian hunters! Vowing that they would get to East Greenland before the official Danish expeditions led by Dr. Lauge Koch, they improvised their own expedition, rushed off to puffin-land, took the puffin by the bill and nailed Norway's colors to Mygg-bukta...
...started for less, but Norway and Denmark are among the world's least warlike nations. Their statesmen talked last week not of war but of civilized appeals to the World Court. Premier Stauning of Denmark, running his fingers through his patriarchal whiskers, announced that he had asked the Danish Minister at Oslo to ask the Norwegian Government "for a more definite elucidation of their position...