Danish Premier’s Gloomy View of the Future
HATS LONG CEASED TO BELIEVE United I'Teas Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. COPENHAGEN, Jan. L The Danish Prime .Minister, M. iStauaing, when interviewed, said: “I am depressed about the future. Even I have long ceased to believe in any. thing. * * Denmark is entering 1940 with subdued hope. The character of her terrain has prevented the construction of a. defence line such as other countries have built. “ Denmark/ * he said, “has been forced to remain passive and impartial regarding the conduct of the war. *'lt is not for me to say what Russia’a object is in attacking Finland, but the nations cannot be indifferent to Finland’s fate.” The small neutrals would go under if the war continued to affect them as St had np to the present. They must hold together or go out together. M. Gunther, Swedish Foreign Minister, in a New Year message, said: •‘There is a threat of annihilation to our possessions and independence, but nobody will interfere with our right of aelf-dete/nination. There is no room for fear.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 2, 3 January 1940, Page 7
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