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Summoned back to Government service after a nine-year hiatus was Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 52, quietly elegant Minnesota Democrat who became the first woman ambassador in U.S. history when Harry Truman sent her to Denmark...
With support from the Benelux nations and. if they are admitted, her former "Outer Seven" trading partners-Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland-Britain would obviously challenge the present Franco-German dominance of the Common Market. With all those countries included, the result may be a "Big Europe," many Common Market partisans fear, bound by commercial rather than political ties and in danger (as Adenauer puts it) of "growing so fat that it bursts...
Silent Mirror. Though the book is overlong and exaggeratedly dramatic, it is full of surprising incidents. When Jenny stayed with friends in Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen would come around to tell stories to the children of the house, a pretext for seeing her. He fell in love with her. He wrote The Emperor's Nightingale for her. When she was cold toward him, he wrote The Snow Queen. When he begged her to marry him, she silently handed him a mirror. That night, he wrote The Ugly Duckling. (Author Schultz offers a modified version of this famous anecdote...
...case of Denmark and Ireland, who have also asked to join, the major hitch to Norway's application is the outcome of Britain's complicated negotiations with the Six. If London's bid falls through. Norway would pull out. Otherwise, Oslo will start negotiating for membership terms this summer-and the bargaining should not be difficult. Half of Norway's most important exports (fish, metals, paper) are already bought by Common Market customers. In addition, Norway's highly developed hydroelectric power system would fill a gap in the energy needs of the Six. The hardest...
...exiled himself to the U.S. in 1901 where he was lauded for his lively book criticism in the Chicago Evening Post, the New Republic and the New York Times, and for his even livelier biographical study of the private lives of Henry VIII; of a heart attack; near Copenhagen, Denmark...