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Have the dollars been wisely spent? British insiders sadly recalled the wrath of Lord Keynes when he returned from negotiating the Washington loan and learned of commitments Britain had made. These included exchange arrangements with France, Belgium and Denmark, credits to Greece, help for the British zone in Germany. Keynes stormed that these were "Foreign Office frivolities," which would fritter away too many dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation...
...resistless waves to the icy barriers of the north," said William Henry Seward 101 years ago. Twenty-one years later, he bought one of the Arctic marches-Alaska -for less than 2? an acre. He would have bought Canada and Greenland if he could. He tried to get Denmark's Virgin Islands, but was a half-century ahead of his countrymen. When the islands were bought during World War I, one of Seward's successors, bumbling Robert Lansing, tossed in a quitclaim to northern Greenland...
There was always the objection that Denmark's national pride would stand in the way of a sale. But U.S. military men thought they had an answer: Denmark owes U.S. investors $70 million. That is less than the cost of an 850-ft. carrier for the Navy, but more dollar exchange than Copenhagen can easily raise...
...toll would surely rise; there are still hundreds of thousands of live mines in unswept fields close to main shipping channels. The danger of floaters would remain for many years. Greece, Sardinia and Sicily were almost surrounded by minefields. Off the Channel coasts and The Netherlands and Denmark, near Eire and Iceland were thousands of mines. The U.S. coasts were believed to be swept clean...
...late for this Christmas but worth saving for next was a news photo of Denmark's Princesses Margrethe and Benedilcte* in costume, prizeworthy in any man's Christmas card division...