Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program begins August 15 with seminars and three-week periods living with a rural and an urban family. This is followed by vacation in Denmark, Norway of Swedon. From November to May students may enroll in one of the folk schools. An intensive language course runs throughout the program...
...five are U.S., four British. France has depleted its four divisions on the Rhine to crush the spreading revolt in North Africa. Britain is reducing its army by 100,000 men; Belgium is disbanding one of its three active divisions; four of the five Dutch divisions are mere skeletons. Denmark's contribution in soldiers is practically negligible, since its 14-month conscription period is too short to train a soldier properly...
...January, 1933, at the University of Frankfurt, he one day gave a lecture entitled "Heil Hitler," in which he analyzed the psychological appeal of the rising Nazi party. The next day Hitler came to power, and Tillich, fired immediately, took refuge on an island off the coast of Denmark...
From the 1931-1935 period to 1951, the U.S. cut tariffs by 75%, collected only 5.1% of the total value of imports; only eight nations (Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Holland) had lower percentages. Great Britain's trade-to-imports percentage is now 25.6%, Mexico's 20.6%. France's 10.6%, Italy's 8.4%. Canada, which gets more than 70% of its imports from the U.S., collects 10.2% on all U.S. imports, v. 2.7% collected by the U.S. on Canadian goods. Furthermore, according to a study by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
...Gerhardsen was merely repeating a pledge made to the Soviet Union in 1949, just before Norway joined NATO. Norway has five NATO-built air bases, and is getting seven more. Allied airmen can drop in on them but cannot be stationed there unless Norway feels imminently threatend by attack. Denmark has a similar clause in its NATO membership...