Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home governments had been informed of the text of the agreement, and all were believed ready to sign. Publication of the text was held up until this week, while the French went through some last-minute formalities in Paris. Foreign ministers of the eight* (plus Denmark, Italy and Iceland, possibly Portugal) were expected in Washington for signing ceremonies early in April...
...Denmark made haste to get on the bandwagon, announced that Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen would fly to Washington to ascertain "the best possible basis for Denmark's final decision." There was hardly any doubt that Denmark would sign. Sweden made no move to abandon her lonely "neutrality," but she would find it increasingly uncomfortable as time went...
...right to determine when such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated that the Danes might be willing to step aboard now of their own volition...
...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...
...party lasted until 2 a.m., and the walls of Oslo's 13th Century Akershus Fortress reverberated with laughter and deep-throated Scandinavian singing. The guests -97 ministers, generals, diplomats and politicians of Sweden, Denmark and Norway-toasted each other and their countries. Gay as any was the host, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange. Yet in his pocket crackled a crisp piece of paper, a note from Soviet Russia. The Soviet ambassador had delivered it just as Lange was leaving for the state dinner...