Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany at week's end: Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Finland, Slovakia, Croatia-three more than fought for Germany at any time in World War I. In Spain the Naziphile Falange began recruiting "volunteers" (while Generalissimo Francisco Franco promised Great Britain to punish Falangist hoodlums who attacked the British Embassy). Denmark broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, closed its only Communist paper, rounded up Reds. German propaganda announced that the Regiment Nordland, composed of Danish and Norwegian Nazis, was fighting on the Finnish Front. There was also a Regiment Westland, made up of Dutch and Belgian Nazis, in Finland, said...
Last January TIME'S Berlin correspondent, accompanied by German officials, visited Wodehouse in prison, took him pipe tobacco, a pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told...
Last week the northwesternmost outpost of Europe moved a little closer to the U.S. By vote of its 1,011-year-old Althing ("Grandmother of Parliaments"), Iceland cut its last ties with Nazi-ruled Denmark, renounced the sovereignty of Danish Christian X, moved to establish a republic...
This was not unexpected. Since World War I a treaty of union has bound Iceland to Denmark only by loyalty to the same crown. The treaty promised Icelanders the chance to review the question of independence in 1940. When the Nazis seized Denmark last spring, the Icelanders temporarily took away Christian's Icelandic prerogatives and handed them over to the Cabinet. Last week's act only legitimized a state of separation caused by war, conquest, blockade...
...order with utmost constitutional correctness. Until a republic should be established, able, revered Svein Bjornsson, Icelandic envoy to Copenhagen, was named regent. There was no need to create a new diplomatic service: Iceland had already planted a set of stalwart Vikings in world capitals after the Nazis captured Denmark last year. As for protocol, Premier Hermann Jonasson had always got along with a staff of a secretary and a doorkeeper, and still could...