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...opposition has not made much of an impression. One of the chief obstacles: Norway's traditional (and largely justified) trust in the honesty of its political leaders. When Erik Brofoss, Labor's Commerce Minister, says "This law may be a mistake, but faced by the uncertainties of future war or depression . . . it is a very honest attempt to meet the problems that might arise," the man in the street sees the sincerity of Brofoss' remark but misses its naiveté. Another obstacle, said a bitter Norwegian shipowner, was too much reliance on skippertak, the Norwegian habit...
...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
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