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Last week the 120,000 people of Iceland, who have never wanted any king, were completely undismayed that Adolf Hitler had bagged His Majesty Christian X, King of Denmark and separately King of Iceland. In any case, 1940 is the year long ago fixed by Icelandic-Danish treaties in which Iceland has the right to vote herself completely independent. Her famed, 1,010-year-old Althing ("World's Oldest Parliament") long since planted abroad as Icelandic Trade Commissioners a likely corps of Vikings all ready to blossom out as diplomats when the foreign affairs of Iceland are taken...
...piece of unfinished business interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Denmark was Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow's long-awaited divorce from her Danish husband. Unless a decree making the divorce effective at once was already signed by King Christian, sealed and on a U. S.-bound liner before the Nazis put him under wraps, Danish Subject Barbara may have to stay married until February 1941, when her divorce automatically becomes final...
...York Times correspondent, Svend Cartensen, wirelessed a cryptic announcement that German troops had invaded Denmark...
Forty-eight minutes later a similar report from Stockholm via a British news service, Exchange Telegraph, finally reached the U. S. Forty-nine minutes later the British Broadcasting Corp. gave early risers in Britain alarming reports of Denmark's invasion. For confirmation, BBC quoted the New York Times...
...when Denmark awoke last week to find scuttle-helmeted Nazi infantrymen patroling its streets the U. S. awoke minus a $500,000-a-day export trade. Choking off the seaborne trade of the three Scandinavians as the U. S. S. R. had already choked the commerce of Good Customer Finland, Adolf Hitler had over night cut more than 5% from U. S. export trade, nearly 4% from her imports...