Word: duress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark's tall Christian X, chastened by two months of Nazi occupation, received Danish bigwigs on Constitution Day, adjured them to stand fast through days of duress...
When he was ordered to tell U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull that all was well in Denmark, he told Mr. Hull instead that he would neither reply to communications nor obey commands of his Foreign Office as long as it was under duress from Germany. Last week Minister de Kauffmann waited for his recall, but he did not intend to be jobless. He was busy setting up a commission to administer the affairs of Greenland. Since such a Danish commission would relieve the U. S. or Canada of the responsibility of feeding and protecting the big island, Minister...