Le Nord : revue internationale des Pays de Nord - 01.06.1943, Blaðsíða 73

THE DANISH SOCIETY
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special knowledge of local conditions in the town or part of the
country in which he is to represent Denmark. Normally, the
agents will be chosen among men and women who have already
acquired an ordinary university degree.
All the above-mentioned comprehensive preparations for the
future activities of the Society are taking place in consultation
with leading experts from the different spheres of Danish na-
tional life. The provision of the necessary equipment of the
agents is chiefly undertaken by the sub-committees referred to
above. These sub-committees consist of young experts, scientists,
and scholars. There is the Research Sub-Committee, which pre-
pares the text-books, and the Technical Sub-Committees which
deal with libraries, language records, films, and lantern slides,
etc. It is these latter sub-committees, assisted by advisory boards,
that provide the technical equipment. The everyday management
of the affairs of the society is in the hands of its secretariat.
The equipment necessary for the establishment of 24 in-
formation posts abroad — the figure provisionally aimed at —
involves an expenditure of about 500,000 kroner. This item be-
longs under “initial expenses,” while the expenditure connected
with the maintenance of the secretariat belongs under “working
expenses.” As from April 1, 1943, the State provides an annual
grant of 20,000 kroner, covering the present working expenses.
When the agents of the Society enter on their duties, their salaries
will, of course, have to be regarded as working expenses, and
the Government grant must then be expected to be substantially
increased. The money for the initial expenses, i. e. the expenses
involved by the acquisition of the above-mentioned equipment,
must, on the other hand, be found wholly by the Society itself.
To this task it is at present devoting itself, and in so doing it is
receiving the support of County Councils, Town Councils, Parish
Councils, private firms, and financial institutions all over the
country. From nearly all the Municipalities of the country and
several hundred Parish Councils it has received contributions to-
talling 350,000 kroner. This figure goes to show that the Danish
Society, whose sphere of activities is abroad, is based on the active
and sympathetic support of public opinion throughout the whole
of Denmark.
From the above account it will appear that the Danish Society
wishes to register and map out all shades of present-day Danish
life and work, and to gather the results into an integral picture,
which it desires to present in an objective and factual form to