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...Northward to Iceland traveled blond, chunky, 39-year-old Bertel Eric Kuniholm, Foreign Service career man, to serve as first U. S. consul to Iceland. The office was created when Iceland's sovereign, King Christian of Denmark, capitulated to Adolf Hitler last April. Mr. Kuniholm's staff: one clerk...
...Navy would be hard pressed to fight off counter-blockade (and starvation) by the Axis. For apart from any surface raiders it may be able to turn loose, the Italian Navy contains not less than 130 submarines, many of them minelayers. With new construction, plus a dozen seized in Denmark and several more last week in France, Germany may now have enough submarines to bring the Axis total up to 200. The total of Allied destroyers, including French, was not much more than 250, or a destroyer-submarine ratio of 1¼-to-1. The air arm now supplements destroyers...
...Most immediate effect on U. S. business of the German attack on Denmark and Norway...
...Norway, Sweden, Finland reject Germany's offer of non-aggression treaties, but Denmark accepts...
...Denmark's tall Christian X, chastened by two months of Nazi occupation, received Danish bigwigs on Constitution Day, adjured them to stand fast through days of duress...