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...those going to Europe the best countries to visit from the point of low-priced living and most hospitable welcome will be Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. France, England, and Germany will be on the lookout for the tourist dollar with an attitude to match. Treatment by custom officials will vary in the same way on the Continent...
Hans Christian Andersen. Danny Kaye as Denmark's great storyteller in a fanciful biography with music (TIME...
...immediate cause of the trouble was an unpopular government order extending Denmark's draft period from 12 to 18 months. Many young Danes resent and resist their tiny nation's undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial...
More worrisome to Denmark's leaders than complacency and pacifism was strong evidence of Communist infiltration of the army's rank & file. In the pocket of one mutineer, investigators found a letter from a Communist youth organizer: "Comrade . . . great things are happening. I want to meet you to discuss these things." Palle Voigt, editor of two Communist magazines that had urged the troops to resist an extension of the draft, was arrested on charges of inciting rebellion. The trouble, believed Danish Defense Minister Harald Petersen, "was obviously directed from abroad...
Hans Christian Andersen. Danny Kaye as Denmark's great storyteller in a fanciful biography with music (TIME...