Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Swedes dreamed of organizing an atomic cooperative among the Scandinavian countries. Sweden had uranium. Norway had heavy water and abundant electric energy. Denmark had Nobel Prizewinner Nils Bohr, one of the greatest living atom experts. Bohr had worked with the Manhattan Project, and no doubt knew many of its secrets. Swedish scientists stated emphatically that they were not interested in atomic bombs. Besides advancing pure science, they were aiming at industrial, technical, and medical uses of atomic energy...
...Appointed Randolph Paul, ex-Treasury tax expert, to be $10,000-a-year presidential assistant; named Major General John H. Hilldring, regular Army director of Civil Affairs, to be an Assistant Secretary of State; Delaware attorney Josiah Marvel Jr. to be Minister to Denmark...
...quarter century ago the two nations most bitterly opposed to special foreign privileges in East Asia were the Chinese and the Soviet Russians. China's surging nationalists denounced the "unequal treaties" which had given 19 nations, including Denmark, extraterritoriality and other rights in China. Russia's new Workers' and Peasants' Government thundered...
...give their aid and counsel, they finished the spadework for the first full-dress assembly of the World Council of Churches to be held in 1948. Probable site: Holland or Denmark. Purpose: to mobilize the influence of the world's Protestant and Orthodox churches as a prime mover in international affairs...
...Commission had hoped to sell 1,000 to foreign buyers. But they have shown scant interest; they are building better ships of their own, many in the U.S. The Netherlands has contracted with U.S. yards to build 30; Brazil has started 14; Great Britain, Norway and Denmark are rebuilding their fleets as fast as possible. Nor is the Commission pinning its hopes on the tubby Libertys to capture the biggest share of world shipping...