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...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...
...appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication, the court's decision, based on a law passed in 1705, would grant the same privilege, on application, to the present Kings of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece, the Queen of The Netherlands, the descendants of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II and to some 400 other non-Roman-Catholic heirs, including the wives of an interior decorator in Amarillo, Texas and a lawyer in Springfield...
...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...