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Ambassador Henrik de Kauffman of Denmark will pay an unofficial visit to the University today, taking part in several functions and finishing the day with a speech in Fogg Museum at 8:15 p.m. tonight.
The Danish envoy is expected to arrive at Harvard shortly after seen. His first appearance will be at the opening of the Houghton Library exhibit commemorating the death of the Danish writer, Hans Christian Anderson.
Following this appearance Kauffman will be honored at a dinner at the Faculty Club from which he will proceed to Fogg for the talk sponsored by the Scandinavian Forum of Greater Boston.
Kauffman, remembered for his historic action on the part of the free Danes who would not recognize the Nazi occupation during the second world war, will speak on "Scandinavia in the World Today."
Kauffman was promoted room Minister to Ambassador a year ago and has long been a proponent of a strong union of the democracies. During the war he acted for Free Denmark in giving the United States the use of valuable air hashes and weather stations in Greenland and since then he has been an active superior of Denmark's participation in the Atlantic Pact.
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