Word: kjell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Copenhagen's Royal Theatre, where many of Pastor Munk's most moving plays had first been performed, Kjell Abell, a writer, walked on stage in the middle of the second act. Said he: "Denmark's great poet has died. The curtain cannot be dropped, but I ask you to rise in tribute to his memory." The audience rose...
After dark came the Admiralty's command: go in and rescue the Altmark'?, prisoners, with or without Norway's permission. Captain Vian at once took his Cos sack into the fjord again. He went aboard the Norwegian gunboat Kjell, invited her commander to lead a British boarding party which would find out for certain about prisoners on the Altmark. The Norwegian declined, but went aboard the Cossack, which proceeded up the moonlit fjord to its precipitous end, where the Altmark had got fast in pack...