is a Danish colony and the largest island in the world. It is Denmark's last remaining overseas possession and one of which Denmark is justly proud. Danish policy in is aimed at developing the population and the country to a condition of final independence (which is, however, still a very long way in the future); and the significance of the occurrences during the second world war is that a vitally important and impressive step in this direction was made during those years. Isolation from the mother country caused the seeds sown long before, prepared through generations of almost imperceptible germination, to spring suddenly to view. In terms of biological time, traversed a longer period in five years than she had done in the preceding fifty. The most recent official announcement on the history, constitution and economy of is the 1949 Report on Greenland to the United Nations.1 Covering the wartime years are several publications in Danish, including Gad's under Krigen (1945) and Vibe's Ene ligger Gronland (1946). Vinding's 1945 (1946), is a general statement for the popular market of present-day conditions. A new history of has recently been published by Gad (1946), and a short ecological study of the resources, people and livelihood, including the wartime period, has been produced by Dunbar (1947). A statement of future possibilities and aspirations in is contained in Prime Minister Hedtoft's address to the Assembly (Parliament or Landsraad), made in 1948.2 Finally a rich source of contemporary material on the wartime life in is the semi-monthly journal Gronlandsposten, written, edited and printed in Greenland. Gronlandsposten first appeared in 1942, and has been continued