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Princess Margrethe, Denmark's heiress apparent, was the hit of the evening on TV recently when she gave a lively, informal account of an exports-building trip she had made through the Far East. Danes have had a warm spot for Margrethe's kid sister ever since the King allowed in public years ago that the little girl was "strong-minded" and had "bad habits." They worry that the princess may be in for political unpleasantness as Greece's Queen. Many Danish parents sided with their Queen when she tried to make Anne-Marie wait another year...
...Scandinavia's royal families have played an influential part in the north's emergence from the traditional isolationism that ended with World War II. Since then, Norway and Denmark have bound themselves to Europe as charter members of NATO and EFTA, the Outer Seven trading bloc. Finland, Russia's only European neighbor that has not been plucked behind the Iron Curtain, has meticulously observed the neutrality agreement imposed on its government by Moscow after its valiant defense against the Red army. Nonetheless, the Finns are also associated with EFTA and have strong economic and emotional ties...
...Denmark has a special charm, a blend of Baltic wit and North Sea sauce. And the pride of Danes stems from more than possession of Tuborg and Carlsberg beer, or of Europe's oldest royal house. "The Danes are superb salesmen of themselves," sniffs a Swede. "They play their little-mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen image to the hilt." Some 4,500,000 people live in the tidy land north of Schleswig-Holstein, and they wallow in hygge (pronounced HUG-ga), which simply means coziness. It is an indispensable word in Danish that reaches everyone, everywhere. People plan a hyggelig...
...that leads Danish girls to say, "I'd rather have a Negro boy friend than a Swede any day." It also boasts the Berlingske Tidende, one of the great newspapers of Europe, and a Premier, Jens Otto Krag, who has not only outstanding skill but also one of Denmark's favorite actresses as a wife. Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens may be the world's finest pleasure park; there, most summer nights the fireworks splash the city with light, and a cannon booms the midnight signal...
...Denmark, the social services began at the end of the 19th century, but were pulled together in the Social Reform Act of 1933. Denmark's efficient farmers, who own 90% of their land, have largely financed refinements in the system that have left virtually nothing undone, short of nurses to tuck the pampered citizenry into bed at night. Fact is, even that service is available-from members of the Home Help Service, a new wrinkle which provides domestic help for sick housewives...