Word: rigsdag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copenhagen's School Board was startled. Inger Merete Nordentoft, Communist member of the Rigsdag, principal of a large school, and spinster, applied for three months' maternity leave. Board members grew curious. Who was the father? Would Miss Nordentoft marry him? The grey-haired 42-year-old schoolmistress, who had belonged to the Danish underground during the occupation, and had spent five months in a German prison, retorted that it was none of their business. She threatened to sue if they fired her. Already foster-mother of a year-old adopted child, she loves children, says they love...
...socialize or not to socialize: that was the question. Denmark's answer, given in its Rigsdag (Parliamentary) elections last week...
Altogether the six anti-Nazi parties obtained 1,941,600 votes, almost 400,000 more than they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143. The Germans deliberately kept the German minority (Schleswig) party out of the campaign, and the Danish pro-Nazi elements lost three of eight seats. Instead of praise for Germany's benign treatment, Dr. Goebbels reaped humiliating acclaim for Denmark's adherence to the democratic ideal...
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