Word: denmark
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...Denmark. All nine bishops of Danish churches addressed a letter of warning to the Minister of Justice: "Serious tension . . . involves the danger of a violent explosion which would seriously endanger the Danish people. . . ." In many towns schoolchildren formed Churchill Clubs, organized sabotage, filched rifles and other military equipment from German arsenals, distributed illegal newspapers...
This was no empty threat. Since Neighboring Norway and Denmark were invaded in 1940, Swedish airmen and antiaircraftmen have shot down scores of German planes which flew over Sweden and failed to heed warnings. The Swedes do not want to go to war with Germany. But they also know that Germany, amply occupied elsewhere, does not want to go to war with them...
...Spanish Revolution for its indestructible Madrid office building.* Telefónica has been doing all right, although not for its parent. The state of I.T. & T.'s $40,000,000 investment in the European properties of International Standard Electric is more obscure: its manufacturing plants in Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France are now presumably working for Hitler. But the prospects when peace comes are all on I.T. & T.'s side of the ledger...
Hitler's New Order was put to the vote in occupied Denmark last week. For reasons best known to themselves, the Germans permitted the Danes to hold parliamentary elections. The result was the biggest vote in Danish history and a smashing rebuke to the Nazi overlords-a boomerang to the Germans, who, also for reasons of their own, had taken care to advertise the elections to the world...
...powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...