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...sister Maud is Queen of Norway and his mother was Denmark's radiant, regal Alexandra. Last week the most powerful fighting ship on Earth, the 33,900-ton British "superdreadnought" Rodney* hove up to Iceland for a friendly game of Lion & Mouse. The mouse was the trim little Danish orlogsskibe (coast defense ship) Nils Iuel of 4,200 tons. She carried Their Majesties Christian & Alexandrine, King & Queen of Denmark & Iceland, who had come to open amid international jubilation and with Icelandic pomp the "Mother of Parliaments" on her 1,000th birthday...
Previously, although united with Denmark only in His Majesty's person, proud Iceland has keenly "felt" the fact that Danish statesmen were representing her at Geneva. Today jubilant Icelanders have for their 1,000th birthday present the final acknowledgment before all that in every respect they are a sovereign nation. Proud too are all Scandinavians that they alone have set the quarrelsome world an example by almost achieving disarmament. As part of the observances at Reykjavik last week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court...
Indulgent, the Danish judge released Clifton from custody. When the frokener raised a clamor, policemen shushed them. Next day Clifton moped while a Royal automobile flanked by a company of His Majesty's Guards carried the U. S. Minister to Castle Amalienborg. After presenting credentials to King Christian X, Mr. Booth was presented to Queen Alexandrine...
...Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer; 10) 30 radio performers seeking publicity. President Hoover dropped work to go out behind the White House offices to be photographed with: 1) U. S. Civil Service Commissioners and staff; 2) newspaper association managers; 3) "Danish-Americans" en route to Denmark; 4) Pauline Lodge, Lakewood, Ohio, high-school girl, winner of the $500 Gorgas Memorial Essay Contest; 5) Bandmaster John Philip Sousa playing his new "Royal Welch Fusiliers" march...
...Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind, will go to Iceland next June and try to act as much like an Icelander as possible, will open the festival celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's Parliament with a speech he is now valiantly trying to learn?in Icelandic...