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...more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce you to be eminently fair in your investigations and statements in the future. The bald fact that the government of Denmark has never withdrawn its medal and degree given to Dr. Cook but has withdrawn, if I am not wrongly informed, its endorsements of Peary, is splendid proof that Dr. Cook has never been deemed an impostor by Denmark nor by many others in a position to know-not guess. Also...
...Sept. 1, 1909 Dr. Cook, after some two years in the Arctic, announced that he had reached the North Pole. Promptly the Crown Prince of Denmark bestowed on him the medal of the Danish Geographical Society. British Journalist Philip Gibbs at once doubted Cook's story. On Sept. 6, Explorer Robert Edwin Peary, who had raced Dr. Cook to the Pole, said of his competitor: "He has simply handed the public a gold brick." Subsequently examining Dr. Cook's polar observations, a University of Copenhagen commission pronounced: "The documents . . . do not contain observation and information which...
...their most hectic wangles, the question whether Germany is guilty of violating the Locarno Pact was for the first time formally voted on by the League Council. The Councilman from Ecuador was absent, the Councilman from Chile abstained. ''Guilty!" said the eleven votes of Argentina, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey. No one voted "Not Guilty...
...rumored that if the League Council (which acts in vital matters by unanimity) should attempt to impose sanctions on Germany this would be blackballed-by the vote of Denmark, scared Socialist neighbor of the Nazis. It was said that if the Council sought to re-admit Germany to membership in the Council, that would be blackballed by the Bolsheviks. As for the Fascists, there was a sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...