Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weaker Axis? It was generally conceded that Great Britain had arranged the Yugoslav rapprochement with Russia. Russia's position gave the Allies one patch of comfort in the mottled quilt of European power politics last week. German occupation of Denmark and Norway, making the Baltic once more a German lake, was hardly calculated to increase the security of Leningrad, for which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings...
...Nazi invasion fortnight ago of Denmark and Norway, if it had been successful, would have completely cut off Sweden from the rest of the world and have left her at the mercy of Germany. That danger was apparently averted for the time being by the landing of Allied expeditionary forces in northern Norway, but the failure of the German plan to achieve complete success put Sweden in an even more difficult spot...
...Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
Sweden can probably thank her military strength for still being at peace last week. But for it, Hitler would probably have included Sweden in his Blitzkrieg on Denmark and Norway. Herr Hitler has a weakness for a pushover, and if he had found Norway just a little bit easier he would have had Sweden locked in her room. But another reason for her still unviolated borders may be Sweden's weakness, and until last week this weakness was scarcely suspected outside of Sweden. Adolf Hitler may believe that he can get Sweden's iron and her arsenal, immobilize...
Sweden's dynasty, like Sweden's people, was last week in a grim predicament. King Christian of Denmark, the father-in-law of Gustaf's granddaughter, is now a German puppet; and Christian's brother, Haakon of Norway, was a target for German bombs and bullets. While Norwegians were fighting for their lives and freedom, Swedes, their closest national relatives, dared not go to their defense. But this week as Nazi warplanes swarmed over Sweden King Gustaf sent a stiff protest to Berlin...