Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to the Nazis, Denmark was bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...Christian X had not counted on the mighty loyalty of his people. From Copenhagen's main street to the bypaths of the tiniest village flew the red-&-white-colored flag of a Denmark which was once free...
Died. Thorvald Stauning, 68, towering, red-bearded Prime Minister of Denmark; in Copenhagen. Flower-loving, neighbor-loving, he was a sentimental plumper of "Greenland for the Eskimos." wrote a best-selling book titled My Trip to Greenland, believed, till too late, in the neighborliness of Denmark's neighbors...
...must have concern for children above all," Jones said, since it is among them that famine takes its greatest toll. Widespread rickets among European children is being combated with vitamin concentrates, formerly shipped in five gallon lots via clipper, and now obtained in Denmark...
...March 1, 1935, he got the Saar by plebiscite. On March 7, 1936, he reoccupied the Rhineland. On March 13, 1938, he marched into Austria. On March 15, 1939, he occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia. On April 9, 1940, he absorbed Denmark and invaded Norway. On April 6, 1941, he drove into Yugoslavia and Greece...