Word: kauffmanns
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Very popular among his countrymen before the war, this Dane has of late become closely associated with Henrick de Kauffmann, Danish Minister who may be one of the men who form the nucleus of the Post-war Northern European country's government...
...express approbation for their Minister to the U.S. Henrik de Kauffmann, who put Greenland in U.S. keeping, many Danes recently took to wearing little Statue-of-Liberty insignia on their lapels. The Nazis forbade...
Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
...clock one afternoon last week, Minister de Kauffmann, dapper as usual in his grey suit and roll-brim black hat, hurried into the State Department. Cordell Hull was waiting for him. Waiting also was the agreement that Minister de Kauffmann had negotiated, without the knowledge and against the will of his Nazi-dominated Government at home. Pale and unsmiling, he signed; "Judge" Hull, scowling, affixed his nose glasses and signed after him. By the agreement's terms...
...protectorate over Greenland. It acted under the Monroe Doctrine, which forbids the transfer of territory in the Americas from one non-American power to another. In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen muttered about taking appropriate action. In Copenhagen the Danish Government, under Nazi pressure, disavowed the agreement, protested, ordered Minister de Kauffmann's recall. Minister de Kauffmann paid no attention...