Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Open Wound." Only the colors of the flags of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland are different, the design is the same-a cross on a plain field*-and wealthy Stockholm with her many lagoons, beauteous "Venice of the North," was a brilliant forest of cross-flags last week as the President of Finland alighted at Bromma Airport with brisk, energetic Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko...
...keen. Thus in 1914, when Gustaf V asked the Scandinavian sovereigns to meet him at Malmo, Sweden, to adopt a common policy in the face of World War I, His Majesty was careful to buss the King of Norway on only one cheek and lightly, kissed the King of Denmark heartily on both cheeks. In the much greater emergency of World War II last week, Swedes were happy to see Gustaf V signal that Scandinavia is now united as never before by warmly kissing on both cheeks both Christian X and Haakon...
...ldig borg." To conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...
Christian X of Denmark, speaking also for Iceland of which he is separately King: "The loyal cooperation of the Nordic States gives hope for the future...
...spring of this year Adolf Hitler "invited" all three Scandinavian States to sign bilateral non-aggression pacts with the Reich. Norway and Sweden promptly refused, saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders...