Plump and pleasing Herre Lauritz Rasmussen does not look like a defense minister. Still less does he sound like one. Last week the portly chief of Denmark's minute armed forces (a national militia of 14,136 men; 45 coast defense vessels) calmly declared that they must be further reduced—to nil.
Taking as text the sweeping Fascist gains in Germany's recent election (see p. 25), Herre Rasmussen squarely faced the fact that before long—no one knows how long—there may be an aggressive, militant, Fascist government at Berlin.
What would such a...
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