Dispossessed Diplomat

To the long list of dispossessed diplomats in Washington last week was added Denmark's Minister Henrik de Kauffmann.* When this cinematically handsome, longtime diplomat's Government ordered him to cooperate with German Charge d'Affaires Hans Thomsen, easygoing Minister de Kauffmann got mad.

When he was ordered to tell U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull that all was well in Denmark, he told Mr. Hull instead that he would neither reply to communications nor obey commands of his Foreign Office as long as it was under duress from Germany. Last week Minister de Kauffmann waited for his recall, but he did not intend to be jobless. He was busy setting up a commission to administer the affairs of Greenland. Since such a Danish commission would relieve the U. S. or Canada of the responsibility of feeding and protecting the big island, Minister de Kauffmann confidently expected to meet no objections.

* The others: Austria's Edgar Prochnik, Czecho-Slovakia's Vladimir Hurban, Poland's Count Jerzy Potocki, Albania's Faik Konitza.

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