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Greenland Provincial Council

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to examine the realm's policies and administration over the island. The Greenlander's chief concerns were (1) an end to the ban on entry into the island which had even led to the isolation of the American bases there from the local population; (2) an end to government monopolies over trade with the
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All were native-born Greenlanders and employees of the Greenland Administration. They selected Augo Lynge and Frederik Nielson to represent Greenland in the
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The translation is inexact and carries some political overtones. There are Greenlanders who prefer to refer to the former
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The first Provincial Council to be elected by direct suffrage was elected on 29 June 1951 (excepting
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outbreak) and opened on 25 September 1951. It was the first Greenlandic election to permit
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Men and women older than 23 and resident on the island six months were eligible to vote.
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The Provincial Council had thirteen members and was presided over by a royally-appointed
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of the island during World War II, the government of Denmark ordered
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Greenland Today: Progress and Reforms in the World's Largest Island
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and Frederik Lynge to represent it on the board of the
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Index

Danish
North
South Greenland Provincial Councils
Greenland Home Rule Government
Parliament
Greenlandic
Danish
Governor
Inatsisartut
North
South
Instruction of 1782
Royal Greenland Trading Company
royal inspector
Greenlandic economy
American occupation
a commission
Royal Greenland Trading Department
Upernavik
Nanortalik
measles
female suffrage
Nanortalik
JulianehÄb
FrederikshÄb
Narssaq
GodthÄb
Sukkertoppen
Holsteinsborg
Kangatsiaq

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