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...Norwegians fumed last week when the motorship Cometa, bound from Bergen to neutral Argentina, was reported torpedoed by a U-boat right in Kirkwall, Britain's contraband control port in the Orkney Islands. The Admiralty quickly denied responsibility, said the sinking occurred "hundreds of miles" from Kirkwall in the North...
...this picture starts a new trend, I shall expect to see Lincoln acted by Robert Taylor (without makeup), Bell by Mickey Rooney, Washington by Shirley Temple, and Charlie McCarthy by Edgar Bergen's other puppet with the unpleasant face...
...state of affairs is Standard Brands' board of directors, in which the Morgans swing a lot of weight. To bring yeast back Standard scientists were put to work on fruit flavors for yeast, are still at it. Vice President Daniel P. Woolley, who had freely exhibited himself with Bergen's imp on his well-tailored knee, resigned. Charlie's hour was cut to 30 minutes, shorn of his sarongster stooge Dorothy Lamour. The advertising business buzzed with Standard Brands' changes: J. Walter Thompson kept coffee, tea and yeast; Royal Baking Powder went to McCann-Erickson; Royal...
Captain Vian said he had orders to rescue British prisoners from the Altmark. He suggested that the Norwegians join him in putting guards aboard her, taking her back to Bergen for examination. The Norwegians explained that their authorities had found the Altmark to be unarmed, were unaware of any prisoners aboard. Would the British please respect Norway's neutrality, withdraw from her waters? Captain Vian & mates pulled out beyond the three-mile limit where they lay watchfully, awaiting further Admiralty instructions. While they waited, along came the German tanker Baldur which, accosted by the destroyer Ivanhoe, scuttled and fired...
Norway was good and mad. Early this week Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in a special statement before the Storting, let Great Britain have a piece of the Norseman's mind: "Lord Halifax was of the belief that the Altmark had been in Bergen although the ship had not been in any Norwegian harbor. ..." Further snapped Foreign Minister Koht: ". . . The British Government is of "the opinion that it can neglect ordinary international law. . . . The [Norwegian] Government cannot believe that the British Government, when having thought the case over, will not acknowledge that it is in open conflict with...