Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours Nazis rained death on Namsos, which went up in flames. The stations at Åndalsnes and Dombäs (between Åndalsnes and Oslo) were fired, too. British air fleets retaliated with more raids on Stavanger, Kristiansand, and a new troop-ferry air terminal at Aalborg in Denmark. Apparently the northern war's turning point still hinged on dominance...
Nine months ago Sweden felt she could look on the swelling pride of Germany and Russia with relative complacence. She was the geographical centre of a ring of seven well-disposed, small, but collectively considerable, Baltic and Scandinavian States: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Norway. One or another of them might be threatened, but it was hardly plausible that a nation ringed around with seven such neighbors would have to face the worst...
Last week seven out of seven of Sweden's neighbors had been raped, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Norway by arms, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by threats. Sweden was the only untouched survivor of the group and the march of events pointed now straight...
Having correctly predicted the invasion of Denmark and Norway in a speech several weeks ago, Samuel H. Cross '12, Professor of Slavic Languages, yesterday gazed into the crystal ball again and saw that Sweden's neutrality may also be short-lived...
Next day, on the prospect that Denmark's exit from the world butter, bacon and fat market might bring business to U. S. packers, such stocks as Armour and Wilson came to life. Commodity prices went into a mild boom. But investment was cautious: Britain, by tightening its breakfast belt, drawing more heavily on the farmers of the Empire, may still be able to stay out of the U. S. bacon-and-egg market, save her foreign exchange for military materials. Meanwhile, Scandinavian dollar bonds hit the skids, with declines up to almost 50%. Washington issued an order, generally...