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...angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...that the country would not resist if invaded. Most of them demanded a stiffer stand. Last week they got it. Bucked by Sweden's plain talk to Russia (see above), the six major parties of Denmark's Folketing (lower house) jointly moved and passed unanimously (one North Schleswig member not voting) a resolution which said...
World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to register at hospitals...
...four Oslo Powers do not have the same German problem. Norway, Sweden and Finland have some protection against Germany in the Baltic Sea. Denmark has a common 42-mile border with the Nazis. Furthermore, in the 1,500-square-mile province of North Schleswig, Denmark owns territory that, from 1864 to 1918, belonged to Germany. Several times during the last few years the German press has indicated that some day North Schleswig would be returned to the Reich. While Britain indicated last month that she would fight if Denmark were invaded, the Danes know that the German Army could probably...