Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wings over Cordell Hull's doorway fitted well with the mood over Washington and the U. S. Had not the drama and the villain been seen before, the lines known to the audience almost by heart? Last week the President of the U. S., receiving the Ministers of Denmark and Norway, did not hide his sympathy for them and their countries. The 1,500,000-odd Scandamericans in the U. S. prayed, raised relief funds, damned Hitler (and Great Britain, whom many taxed with provoking the invasion...
...Forbade withdrawals or transfers of Danish and Norwegian gold stocks, cash balances, credits in the U. S. (see p. 79), except by permission of the Treasury Department. Object: to keep from Adolf Hitler 1) $20,000,000 in Export-Import Bank credits recently granted Denmark and Norway; 2) private moneys, credits and goods whose Scandinavian owners might be forced to disgorge to the Nazis...
...Arranged to evacuate 552 U. S. citizens from Denmark, 1,067 from Norway, and (if need be) 1,752 from menaced Sweden...
...more routine acts remained to be done: i) a neutrality proclamation, recognizing Nazi conquest in Denmark, war in Norway, and forbidding all three, as belligerents, to buy on credit in the U. S.; 2) a statement denouncing the Nazis. At week's end, the neutrality proclamation was still unmade. For four days Mr. Roosevelt also withheld the statement. When he did speak last week, he did not name Germany. His words were for-the-record echoes of all that a U. S. President could say and had already said for Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Finland. ("If civilization...
...small States is past. . . I shall have ... a Northern Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. If they don't like it, they can try to drive me out. In any case, they will have to bear the main burden of attack...