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Sirs: Correction TIME, May 17, p. 24, col. 2: Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrøm bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnem...
Most things are in the air in Denmark for many years before they become realities...
...Danish castle which William Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Hamlet was Kronborg Castle, whose sombre walls and pinnacles frown across the narrow sound between Sweden and Denmark. A state property for centuries, the old place was a military barracks until ten years ago, when it became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish...
Northern Entente? Until 1918 the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Denmark, Sweden-were neutral. Then, like Belgium, they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time...
...Denmark, Kingdom of Reason by Agnes Rothery; the Viking Press ($3). Excerpt: "In a universe pitching in unrest she [Denmark] maintains her equilibrium. In a Europe seething with hatred and riven by distress, she blooms in contentment and cheerful industry...