Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen arrived in Washington, and was closeted with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who told him the facts of life as related to peace for the Atlantic community-and also, probably, gave him an estimate of what Denmark could expect in the way of arms after she signed. This week, Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson arrived for a similar briefing...
Most of the country's 2,800 doctors are in the plan. A bit more than half the premiums is paid by employees, the remainder by employers and government. Denmark, beginning with health co-operatives in 1891, has had a compulsory system since 1933. Of Denmark's 4,000,000 people, all those over 15 years of age must now register with recognized health insurance cooperatives and contribute premiums equaling up to $10 yearly. But benefits depend on individual income. Those who have more than $1,700 a year after taxes are not eligible for free medical treatment...
This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...
...guest lists of the party, it turned out that Land og Folk had in its haste forgotten to clear the story in the proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...
...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...