Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conquest of Norway would be an essential preliminary to landings which would have a much more direct effect on the enemy: in Denmark, and perhaps then on the Baltic coast of Germany, at a point within 100 miles of Berlin itself. Strongly defended Copenhagen would have to be taken before substantial forces could be landed on the Baltic coasts. But Germany could concentrate perhaps 40 divisions, would have the advantage in the early defense of the narrow Baltic approaches. "Until the German divisions in Germany are drawn off elsewhere [by other invasions or the Russian campaign], an invasion of Denmark...
...Victoria, who bore him four sons and a daughter. The eldest son and heir apparent to the throne is Prince Gustaf Adolf, a mere youngster of 37 with three charming daughters, Margaretha, Birgitta and Désirée.* The daughter, Ingrid, is married to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The second son, Sigvard, married a commoner. The other two sons, Bertil and Carl Johan, are with the Swedish Navy and Army...
...death of such a grammarian as Browning wrote of was reported last week from London (where the news had been picked up from Denmark's Nazi-controlled Kalundborg radio). On April 30 death had come to 82-year-old Jens Otto Harry Jespersen after an operation in Roskilde's hospital. In this handsome Danish giant of scholarship, English grammar lost its greatest living historian, Europe an outstanding humanist...
Jespersen was a man of temperament, a great teacher and-in his field-a great realist. Upon English grammar he gazed with a fondly passionate eye, that knew and loved it as it was, not as it should be. Upon England he looked somewhat as though she were Denmark's interesting offspring.* A Social-Democrat, Jespersen liked neither capital letters (used for all Danish nouns) nor kings (although he did not much mind Denmark's King Christian X). He saw traces of the democratic spirit in the very bones and muscles of English speech...
Died. Dr. Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, 82, philologist; in Roskilde, Denmark...