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Abruptly changing front last week, because of Germany's withdrawal from the League and Disarmament Conference (TIME, Oct. 23), Premier Stauning shouted, "Our German frontier in North Slesvig is the frontier of all Scandinavia! . . . It must and will be defended by every means at our disposal. I shall consult at once with Premier Hansson [of Sweden] and Premier Mowinckel [of Norway]. . . . The time is ripe for us to forge a united Scandinavian front...
...German. The Paris Peace Conference allowed Germany to keep Holstein and German Southern Schleswig. By the Versailles Treaty plebiscites were held in northern and central Schleswig. The Danish northern zone plumped for Denmark. To Denmark's rage & grief the central zone voted to stay German. Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border. Lately a new glitter has come into Prussian Nazi eyes. Last week Danes heard that Nazis planned an Easter visit to Danish Slesvig in full Nazi uniform...
...Danish Parliament thought fast. They concluded that a Nazi in Denmark is only a German in a uniform. They then acted fast. They called an extraordinary session and passed a law providing for 100 extra police in Slesvig. They also passed a law forbidding the wearing of all political party uniforms and emblems. An airplane scudded to King Christian's Easter residence at Skaw in Jutland, scudded back with his signatures on the new laws. On Easter Day Slesvig Danes saw a lot of strangers, no uniforms...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...