Word: rasmussens
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...Paul van Zeeland, Belgium; Lester Pearson, Canada; Gustav Rasmussen, Denmark; Count Carlo Sforza, Italy; Joseph Bech, Luxembourg; Dirk U. Stikker, The Netherlands; Jose Caeiro da Matta, Portugal; Halvard M. Lange, Norway; Thor Thors, Iceland...
Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen arrived in Washington, and was closeted with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who told him the facts of life as related to peace for the Atlantic community-and also, probably, gave him an estimate of what Denmark could expect in the way of arms after she signed. This week, Iceland's Foreign Minister Bjarni Benediktsson arrived for a similar briefing...
Denmark made haste to get on the bandwagon, announced that Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen would fly to Washington to ascertain "the best possible basis for Denmark's final decision." There was hardly any doubt that Denmark would sign. Sweden made no move to abandon her lonely "neutrality," but she would find it increasingly uncomfortable as time went...
...such action was "necessary." Acheson felt that this compromise was forthright enough to reassure Western Europeans, while worded properly to reassure Senators, who didn't want to surrender their Constitutional right to declare war. Norway was all set to climb aboard. Even Denmark's Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen, who thought the U.S. was trying to hustle him through the gate, indicated that the Danes might be willing to step aboard now of their own volition...
...hour and a half, not one of the 1,696 trapshooters bettered his score of 99. Then a Pennsylvania truck farmer hit 96 birds in a row, missed the 97th, shattered the next three to tie Jimmy. Under a 97° sun, Farmer John W. Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize...