Foreign News: Down with Scavenius!
In Copenhagen students swarmed through the streets shouting "Down with the traitor Scavenius!" They tramped past the German Army headquarters singing Tipperary. The Nazi occupation authorities ordered out the police, who went to work on the rioters with clubs and pistols.
Sixty-four-year-old Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius, whose signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in Berlin last week provoked the Copenhagen riots, is Adolf Hitler's most efficient tool in Denmark. The son of a Court Chamberlain, he made his youthful diplomatic debut in Berlin, first became Foreign Minister in 1909 when he was only 32. Since then he has been Ambassador to Italy, Austria and Sweden, a leader of the pro-German Radical Party. Last July he organized the Danish Free Corps to fight Russia.
Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler.
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