Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors that Washington Hostess Perle Mesta would be the next U.S. Ambassador to Denmark were getting a cool reception in some Copenhagen circles. "Nowadays in diplomacy," the conservative Berlingske Tidende delicately pointed out, "you do not ask questions about sex, but about qualifications...
Representatives of ten western European nations signed the charter for a Council of Europe yesterday in London. Agreeing to the charter, which provides for a joint cabinet and parliament, were Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Ireland. London sources reported that Winston Churchill may become the British delegate...
...October 1944 he entered a Navy Officer Candidate School, and was assigned to various naval stations and a submarine on the North Atlantic convey lanes. Farber is particularly bitter about the stretch he served in Denmark. "The Danes suffered very little from war," Farber writes. "All that they had to suffer was the loss of political and economic freedom. . . they had a good living and never any starvation, not like in Germany after the occupation by allied troops." Farber says Germany needs its economic freedom, and suggests the U. S. develop his country as a market for surplus goods...
...Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland...
Died. Prince Harald of Denmark, 72, brother of Norway's King Haakon VII and uncle of Denmark's King Frederik IX, husband of Princess Helena (expelled, after Denmark's liberation, for her pro-Nazi activities); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...