Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed ski meet on Holmenkollen, attracting 450 crack jumpers, was abandoned. When quislings tried to organize their own Holmenkollen meet, only 20 nonentities signed up. When a quisling was made president of the Oslo Gymnastic Society, all 7,000 members resigned. Sixty-four wrestlers signed up for matches with Denmark. Day of the elimination contests, not one appeared...
...vote gave tangible proportions to a fretting issue between the U.S. and Great Britain. Iceland, united with Denmark under the King, was first occupied by British troops in May 1940, then garrisoned by U.S. soldiers in July 1941. A valuable way station on the convoy routes of war, it would also be an important stopover for postwar transatlantic air routes. Under its union agreement with Denmark (made in 1918 and considered inoperative as a result of Denmark's occupation), Iceland could act for independence any time after Jan. 1, 1944. Against that day the U.S. and Great Britain have...
...Iceland were independent of Denmark, it would come within the sphere of either British or U.S. influence. In Washington, Iceland's Minister Thor Thors made it plain that his country looks to the U.S. as its first big neighbor. But that alone would not decide the issue; at the peace table little Iceland's status would be a problem that the U.S. and Great Britain would have to settle...
Niels Bohr, Denmark's Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was back where he had done much of his famed work on the atom: in England. High-domed, shaggy-browed Bohr, according to a London paper, had reached England from Denmark by way of Sweden in an escape which "when . . . told in full will be one of the most thrilling...
Sharing the humiliation of his Jewish subjects, he would wear the Badge of Shame among his proudest decorations. ... I nominate . . . Christian X of Denmark...