--- description: Premier Neergaard, presiding over a Cabinet Council, listened patiently to Minister of Defence Brorson, who was explaining a bill to abolish the Army and Navy and replace them by a general Police... title: DENMARK: Obsolete image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # DENMARK: Obsolete by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 1, 1924 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 1, 1924 4:00 AM CUT Premier Neergaard, presiding over a Cabinet Council, listened patiently to Minister of Defence Brorson, who was explaining a bill to abolish the Army and Navy and replace them by a general Police Force and a larger Air Force. After some discussion, the Cabinet approved the draft of the bill, which is to be introduced in Parliament next Autumn. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6766432/denmark-obsolete/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6766432/denmark-obsolete/"},"headline":"DENMARK: Obsolete","datePublished":"1924-09-01T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T18:59:06.776Z","description":"Premier Neergaard, presiding over a Cabinet Council, listened patiently to Minister of Defence Brorson, who was explaining a bill to abolish the Army and Navy and replace them by a general Police...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6766432/denmark-obsolete/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6766432/denmark-obsolete/","name":"DENMARK: Obsolete"}}]}] ```