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Kings Gustaf and Christian of Sweden and Denmark met face to face, kissed cheek to cheek for the first time in six years, at a two-family get-together at Denmark's Amalienborg Castle. Sweden's aging Gustaf (87)-whose granddaughter is married to King Christian's son-went by destroyer to Copenhagen to visit his 74-year-old royal friend. Then the royal in-laws of both houses got together for a group picture to make it official...
...Businessmen with prewar trade connections may go to Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Rumania if their business is urgent...
...passed this idea on to Denmark's great atomist, Niels Bohr, who was just about to leave for Princeton. Bohr told U.S. experimenters about it. They sprang to their atom-smashing machines and quickly confirmed it (TIME, Feb. 6, March 13, 1939). They also stood gallantly back while Dr. Meitner published the first notes on uranium splitting. She called it "fission," a familiar word in biology but a new term for physics...
...below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...
...Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands had just completed, or were about to complete, new cabinets, in which resistance or leftist leaders dominated. Belgium was faced with a political crisis touched off by King Leopold's decision to return home. In France, the French defeat in Syria had raised new questions about the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Would he still be strong enough, by the time of France's national election next fall, to keep the right and left in suspended solution? In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's position had been further weakened by the snub given...