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Postwar Europe was like a medieval market town, trying to do business with 16 different kinds of money. Hungry Britain, the ironmonger and coal merchant, was earning more German marks than it knew what to do with, but not enough kroner to buy eggs and bacon from Farmer Denmark. Italy, the green grocer, was picking up all the guilders it could use by selling oranges to Holland, but couldn't buy steel from France because it didn't have enough French francs. Almost every nation's larder was empty of the food and manufactures which its next...
Glittering in his gold-laced uniform, Denmark's King Frederik boarded the 1,054-ton royal yacht Dannebrog in Copenhagen harbor and weighed anchor for Greenland on his first official visit since 1921. Queen In grid, who does not share her salty husband's love of the sea, announced that she would make the trip...
...acquainted tour of the NATO countries, General Matthew Ridgway spoke at Elsinore, Denmark, where he won Danish hearts by his closing phrase: Held og lykke ("Good luck to you all"), delivered in faultless Danish. In Oslo, after a meeting with King Haakon, who will be 80 years old in August, 57-year-old Soldier Ridgway reported: "I could spend hours with him. But he was very thin, and I think he should eat more...
Back in his native Denmark, Captain Kurt Carlsen went aboard the royal yacht Dannebrog for a half-hour chat with King Frederik IX. Commented Carlsen: "It was a simple meeting between two sailors...
...wave of cold anger swept across doggedly neutral Sweden, which stayed out of World Wars I and II and now refuses to join Norway and Denmark in NATO. The anger was aggravated by an event in Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador...