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...Denmark's tiny army, a link in NATO's northern anchor chain, was shaken last week by ugly spasms of mutiny. On strategic Bornholm Island, 200 draftees went on a disobedience strike, called on "all watches to leave their posts." At Holbaek on Zealand Island, 300 men refused to eat their rations, and bought hot dogs instead. Worst of all, a batch of 100 conscripts from the 9th Regiment of the King's Own Foot Guards set off for Copenhagen on a protest march. Other malcontents were prepared to join them on the way to the capital...
Illegal but "Understandable." Sparked by Allerup's example, Denmark's 1,500-man officer corps quickly and easily brought the other outbreaks under control, clapped 24 ringleaders into jail. But at the investigation that followed, they unearthed symptoms as disquieting as the disobedience itself...
...over. Before the operation could get under way, however, promises of 17 million sandbags had been given Britain's embassies in Europe alone. By the following morning, R.A.F. transports were winging their way to pick up 5,500,000 bags already stacked on airfields in Italy, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Germany and Portugal. Even The Netherlands, stripped of sandbags by her own needs, offered all surplus space on Dutch airliners to carry the bags Britain needed...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
...Denmark got a volley of publicity when the press latched on to a letter telling the folks...