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...Babble. All the ladies were forced to talk into a dismaying babble from the delegates. Minnesota's handsome, fair Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, did achieve one moment of triumph. During a slight lull she cried that the Democrats had to go on demonstrating that basic policies were "made by our civilians . . . and . . . not ... by generals -in or out of uniform!" The crowd gave her a rousing hand...
...screeched the voice, "how funny it is!" Most sculptors would have been tempted to throw a mallet, but Gerhard Henning, Denmark's best sculptor, ignored his parrot Jakob, gave a few final taps with his hammer, and stepped back to survey his work. Before him was a life-sized figure of a Nordic maiden chiseled in grey limestone. Sculptor Henning grunted critically. His Recumbent Girl, finished last week for Copenhagen's Carlsberg museum, was his first major work in two years, and he wanted it to be perfect...
...Werner von Grundherr, Bonn's Ambassador to Greece, had also served Ribbentrop as chief of the Scandinavian desk, and directed the roundup of Denmark's Jews. Ironically, Grundherr, a Junker, never made the grade as a Nazi Party member; the Nazis rejected his application. He also has already resigned...
...years before Congress passed the Battle Act, which empowers the President to cut off U.S. aid to countries caught sending strategic materials behind the Iron Curtain. The tanker deal was no secret, but not until last month did the U.S. protest officially, hinting strongly that aid to Denmark might vanish with the Apsheron...
Sorry, answered Foreign Minister Ole Bjoern Kraft, supported by the cabinet and all of Denmark's anti-Communist parties: a contract is a contract; Denmark must deliver the Apsheron now and her twin in late 1953. At week's end it looked as if the U.S. would have to give in. Ready for President Truman's decision was a recommendation by Mutual Security Administrator Averell Harriman that the U.S. continue its economic aid ($20 million last fiscal year) to the Danes, in spite of the Battle Act. But the U.S. hopes to talk Denmark out of delivering...