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...Kingdom of Denmark these days, the beer bottles must have square labels, because the Government decided that oval ones waste too much paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...
What can be done? UNRRA, the American Red Cross, Europe's handful of doctors have failed to stop the white plague's spread. This month one of Europe's smallest countries, Denmark, will launch a brave try. Its weapon: BCG vaccine (TIME, Nov. 11), which in Danish tests has reduced the T.B. rate to one-seventh that among the unvaccinated. In the next few weeks Danish Red Cross teams, each consisting of a doctor, two nurses and a secretary, will go to Warsaw, Budapest and Rendsburg, Germany, to begin vaccinating their populations, children first...
Ordeal of Anger. Janet Lewis' setting is Denmark in the middle 17th Century and her writing, as clean as a peeled twig, traces a clear outline of a dark Scandinavian story. The fearless Pastor of Vejlby, Soren Qvist, prayed God to relieve him of the passion of anger. But when the insolent Morten Bruus asked for his only daughter in marriage, Soren hurled him to the ground. The title of the novel refers not only to the actual trial of the Pastor for murder, with which he was eventually charged, but to the spiritual ordeal that preceded...
Road Hog. In Baekke, Denmark, a befuddled autoist honked impatiently behind an auto wrecker that hogged the road for 12½ miles, later protested angrily to the salvage company, learned to his chagrin that he was the drunk the wrecker had been towing home...
...last eight years, W.S.S.F. has distributed to needy students abroad over one-million dollars worth of food, books and clothing and haw moved it through relief committees in Finland, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and France to name only...