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These students come from all the western nations: Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Greece--and from others outside the Marshall Plan: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Finland, and Republican Spain. Six Displaced Persons complete the roster, which was to have included Poland and Bulgaria, too, until last-minute difficulties kept their students away...
Unfortunately for the logic of his position, Mr. White cannot explain away certain facts. One of his informants reports, "After (the fall of France) came the spoils of war--butter and bacon from Denmark, wines, perfumes and silk underwear from Paris--things that Germany hadn't known for years. Everybody thought the war was fine." The Germans began to disapprove of the war only when it appeared they were going to lose...
...Mary after a year and after her death sent the Armada to make war on her half-sister Elizabeth. The second Mary's husband, Prince William of Orange, was an heir to the British throne in his own right and ruled equally with his wife. Prince George of Denmark, who married Queen Anne, had no British status, except as the Queen's husband. Victoria's Albert was the first to receive the title Prince Consort. It gave him social precedence over other members of the royal family, changed his political status...
...great-great-grandson of Britain's Victoria, Philip Glücksburg was born on the Island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. In 1863 his grandfather, Prince William of Denmark, had become Greece's King George I. Philip was sixth in line to the Greek throne. But a year after Philip's birth, his uncle, King Constantin, was tossed off the throne. Philip, his parents and his sisters* became exiles. With his family, Philip sailed to England, where his mother's father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had gained fame in the days before World...
...hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where he built a prosperous practice among the Chinese by knocking 10% off his bill (after first adding 10% to the charge). When his son went out from Denmark to join him in 1935, Dr. Eskelund's prestige was already high. Said the sign of one Chinese practitioner: "Dr. Chu, Dental Surgeon, former chief assistant to Dr. Eskelund, former dentist to the King of Siam...