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Norway has never recognized the claim of Denmark that all Greenland is Danish. Norwegians have quietly thought and quietly said for years that Eastern Greenland north of Scoresby Sound is Norwegian. Last week this Arctic crisis, forgotten for years and quiescent as a cake of ice, suddenly thawed and melted wrathfully, boiled...
...Arctic Council, constituted last January to advise the Norwegian Government about Arctic affairs. This council, composed of peppery Arctic experts, suddenly released to the Norwegian press a handout with two main points: first, the Norwegian public was warned that a Danish expedition will soon set out to explore East Greenland; second, the Council urged that the Government "draw part of East Greenland under Norwegian sovereignty," presumably by sending out a Norwegian expedition. Norway's claim to East Greenland, the Arctic Council declared, is justly based on the fact that "East Greenland was colonized by Norwegian hunters...
...Copenhagen last week the Danish press acted as though the Arctic Council were the Norwegian Government, treated its recommendations as at least semiofficial. This was natural. The Arctic Council enjoys Norwegian Government support. Danes were entitled to think that Norway was about to move upon East Greenland in some way. Danes, the ebullient "Frenchmen of Scandinavia," were thus entitled to auger...
...navy to minimums. Norway has done the same. Two such nations cannot very well fight. When excited Copenhagen reporters rushed to excited Danish Premier Theodore Stauning, demanding what he was going to do, the most terrifying threat he could utter was this: "If Norway attacks Danish suzerainty over Eastern Greenland, gentlemen,?if Norway attacks!?then gentlemen, Denmark will complain to the League of Nations...
...Berlin, Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener's widow commissioned her brother-in-law, Professor Kurt Wegener, meteorologist, who at once prepared to go to Greenland to take command of the expedition. She told him to leave her husband's body at rest in its frigid tomb...