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...They came in powdered wigs and capes and frocks of office, in morning clothes sprayed with medals and sashes, set off by black ties and armbands. Here sat Charles de Gaulle and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and the Kings of Norway, Greece and Denmark. One hundred and thirteen na tions had been invited to send representatives to the funeral. Only one-Red China-refused. Unwatched and unheralded, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip drove to St. Paul's by a circuitous route-leaving the panoply and glory of the day to Sir Winston. The Queen could...
Gentofte, Denmark...
...could not or would not get into the Common Market. Britain, which saw EFTA as a second-best alignment until it could ally with the Common Market, has twice the wealth, trade and population of the other six combined. Those far-flung nations range from socialist Norway, Sweden and Denmark through dictatorial Portugal to neutralist Austria and Switzerland. Unlike the Common Market nations, they have no hopes for ultimate political union, no plans to reduce farm tariffs, no intention of establishing a common external tariff...
...with the Tory leaders over colonial and foreign policy and spent most of the decade in lonely, futile opposition to the appeasement policies of the government. Most observers considered his career ended. But when Neville Chamberlain's government collapsed in the face of Germany's conquests of Poland, Norway, Denmark, and the Low Countries, Churchill was the inevitable choice for the Prime Ministership...
Pepsi for Communists. East Germany, whose Stalinist warts long made it a wallflower in the eyes of Western businessmen, is being wooed by everyone from the torrid Latins to the cool Scandinavians. In the past two months it has signed new trade pacts with France, Denmark and Italy. France, in fact, is aiming to overtake West Germany as the biggest dealer with Communism. Two months ago, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing signed a treaty to double trade with Russia to $700 million over the next five years; next month he will talk to Bulgaria...