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...wanted a price-fixing law to hold them down. But the other two parties in Iceland's Coalition Cabinet have refused to consent to a measure which they said meant "State Socialism." So Premier Jónasson last week presented his Government's resignation to Regent Sveinn Björnsson, let others try to form a Cabinet that would tackle Iceland's problem...
...Allied troops sent to dislodge and cut off 1,000 more Germans entrenched on Rombak heights, southeast of the town. An Allied column for this purpose was landed at Fagenes, in Beisfjord to the south. Norwegians plodded eastward through the mountains from Gratangen, to head off German retreat through Björnfjell near the Swedish border, and preserve the ore railroad. The arrival at the border of 460 fugitive German "seamen" in civilian clothes, who said they were refugees from nine merchant ships sunk during the naval actions, betokened the plight of their soldier comrades under General Dietl, famed skier...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...
TIME gladly repatriates Björnson to Norway, Maeterlinck to Belgium...
TIME'S report (TIME, Nov. 19, p. 40) of the recognition once accorded such literary greats as "France's" Maeterlinck and more especially Sweden's" Björnson serves only to accentuate the injustice done that staunch English patriot Eamon De Valera. Surely his contributions in word and deed to the development of a better understanding between neighboring people call for the award of a Nobel prize, that for the promotion of peace being perhaps the most appropriate...