Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia was not known to be against the bloc. In London a high Russian official had nodded approval: "Geography and economic interest dictate bloc formation." Liberated Belgium favored the bloc. The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark might come in once they had been freed. But France was the indispensable partner...
...such a Britain," said B.I.S., "would be useless to the U.S., both commercially and militarily. If it had existed in 1940, the Germans would have overrun it as easily as they overran Denmark. . . . Thus the only way for Britain to be of value to the U.S. is for her to continue with her large population and her great, enterprising industrial economy. And the only way she can maintain these is for her to have immense export markets for her goods, services and investments, as well as the means of access to them-shipping and airlines...
...strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...Wehrmacht continued World War II by other means is the theme of this novel by Austrian-born Erwin Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction...
...Hasselt, an important road junction in Belgium, where units of the U.S. First joined forces with the British Second Army, the British reported that they had found: 1) troops hurriedly brought down from Denmark; 2) fanatic youths, 17 and 18 years old, who had been training as Luftwaffe pilots in Holland until a fortnight...