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...small States is past. . . I shall have ... a Northern Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. If they don't like it, they can try to drive me out. In any case, they will have to bear the main burden of attack...
...night, with frightful weather continuing, Norway's coast de fenders first stole the show by sinking German advance forces, then upset the plot by falling treacherously into German hands so that their shore guns were turned against the Allies (see p. 22}. Before any thing was clear, Denmark was gobbled up by land and German troops were fighting in Norway. Meantime the first of five phases of naval operations had begun...
...first their sweepers had to clear a path through German mines strewn from Denmark to Norway. Sending planes of the Naval Air Service to scout and bomb, the ships waited outside like belated terriers at rocky ratholes...
...lengthy task of trying to isolate and destroy the rest. First step was the swift and probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...
...spoke King Christian X of Denmark in his darkest hour, while German lorries, tanks, airplanes and 50,000 soldiers swarmed over his little land last week to bring it "protection from the Allies." Almost to a man the Danes did as bid, laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...