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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treaties for Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland--all paying the price for helping Adolf Hitler to scourge Europe--were signed in that order during the afternoon session. The United States was a party to all except the Finnish pact. Twenty allied nations participated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allies Sign Peace Pacts in Paris; New Palestine Strife Imminent; Churchill Attacks 'Coalition' Rule | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...manifold miseries. Icy blasts from a high pressure area over Scandinavia struck through crumbling walls and patched clothes. Ice creaked in Venice's lagoons, and gondolas carried snowy canopies. Sicilian roads were blocked by snow. In Stockholm, 100,000 people had the flu, including Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: The Great Frost | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Handsome, popular, 40-year-old Prince Gustaf Adolf's future was assured. Famed in his own right as an Olympic champion horseman, he would one day succeed his 88-year-old grandfather and 64-year-old father as King of Sweden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Interrupted Plans | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Last week, Soprano Moore and Prince Gustaf Adolf were fellow passengers on a Royal Dutch Airlines DC-3 bound for Stockholm. She was booked for a Stockholm concert. He was returning to his family after a week's hunting with The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard. At Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport the plane, piloted by 54-year-old Gerrit J. Geyssendorffer, climbed 150 feet, stalled, rolled over, slammed to the ground and exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Interrupted Plans | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Died. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 40, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince; in the airplane crash that killed Grace Moore; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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