Word: denmark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other butterfat countries (e.g., Denmark, The Netherlands, New Zealand and Australia) the test plan got a rancid reception. "The effect of the present proposal," said New Zealand Ambassador Sir Leslie Munro, "is to export a domestic difficulty at the risk of grave injury to . . . smaller and weaker countries...
...brings back from Europe, the native continent of socialism, two contrasted impressions. Parties with the socialist or labor label are in political control of Norway, Sweden and Denmark and are strong partners in coalition governments in Belgium and The Netherlands. The Labor Party is Her Majesty's Opposition in Great Britain, and its chances of coming into power are about fifty-fifty. The Social Democrats are the strongest single party in opposition to Chancellor Adenauer. But socialism as a secular faith, possessed of a set of infallible principles capable of curing all the ills of the economic order...
...Molotov warned the French government that ratification would "cross out and annul" the 1945 Franco-Soviet treaty of alliance. Britain was sternly advised that the presence of U.S. air bases in East Anglia is "incompatible" with the Anglo-Soviet treaty; six other NATO nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Greece and Turkey-were accused of giving support to "the dangerous remilitarization of Germany...
Cheese & Scarves. Many U.S. tariff policies are still geared to the outdated habits of a nation trying to get onto its economic feet. Others are contradictory, and even self-defeating. Examples: CJ U.S. Marshall Plan experts helped the Danes expand their blue-cheese industry, so that Denmark could earn the dollars it needed to buy U.S. goods. But when the Danes started selling their cheese, the U.S. imposed a quota to keep all but a sliver of foreign blue cheese out. CJ The U.S. lays great stress on the 1921 Anti-Dumping Act, which protects domestic markets from the unfair...
...first official visit to the State Department; 4) checked worriedly to determine whether Chancellor Raab was planning to follow his toast to the President with a short speech at a state dinner (he wasn't); 5) considered proper farewells for the Prime Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark, who were preparing to go home after a brief visit...