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Danish jurist (1895-1953)
In 1946 the Truman administration formally proposed buying Greenland — most often reported as an offer of $100 million in gold — driven by Cold War strategic concerns about Arctic bases and air routes...
proposed paying $100 million (specifically suggested as in gold) for in 1946, a secret initiative rooted in strategic concerns; Denmark did not accept and the idea faded into a historical footnote tha...
Declassified 1946 memos show that senior U.S. officials seriously explored an outright —offering roughly $100 million in gold—and that the proposal was driven by immediate postwar strategic and milita...
A small but consequential set of archival items documents ’ December 14, 1946 conversation with Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen about : a memorandum of conversation drafted in Washington, a Byrnes t...