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...Iceland is just about to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the founding of her Althing ("The Oldest Parliament in the World"). She has weathered a fiscal crisis which seemed to threaten her banking structure, emerged sound (TIME, Feb. 17). After painful conning and concentration, King Christian X of Denmark, who is also King of Iceland, has learned enough Icelandic to read his Millennial Day speech in that tongue. Everything seemed ready, last week, for a perfect celebration which thousands of U. S. tourists will attend. Suddenly a terrific squabble and commotion was raised by Dr. Helgi Tomasson, Director...
King Christian X of Denmark was sound-cinematized riding his horse through the streets of Copenhagen...
...What is probably more significant is that during our task of adjusting wages to secure uniformity* we found it necessary to substantially increase the minimum wage at our Antwerp factory. . . . The response of the worker was almost immediate and was displayed by a reduction of the minute costs. . . . In Denmark, where we pay the highest wages in Europe, we find the lowest unit costs...
March 19-Beginning of ten-day visit of Princes Christian Frederik, Knud and Axel of Denmark, to Japan...
Strangely enough the last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first...