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...Communist Labor Party announced in Christiania that it would join the Conservatives and Agrarians in voting for the repeal of the Prohibition Law. This was said to make certain the end of prohibition in Norway when the Storting (Parliament) meets in the middle of January. The fact that there is an early chance of a complete revocation of the Prohibition law delighted many, but not the bootleggers, who have managed to thrive on smuggling spirits...
...heard Knut Hamsun, who was already well known as a writer, lecture. Later, he became a clerk in an office; then, what he calls a "literary tramp," acting as newspaper correspondent, writing books, reading much. After he was married and became a householder he settled down at Hvalstad near Christiania, where he now lives with his family...
...Christiania (Sweden) Evening Post published a list of names that have been proposed for the next award of the Nobel peace prize. They include Jane Addams, Secretary Hughes, Lord Robert Cecil, Professor John Maynard Keynes (author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace), Francisco Nitti (former Premier of Italy), Carl Lindhagen (Mayor of Stockholm), Warren G. Harding...
...trip to Scandinavian countries is to include visits at the three capital cities of Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm, short tour through the principal northern universities, and stops at other towns of great historical interest or present commercial importance. It will take a ten-day trip through the Norse fjords, and the prty is scheduled to cross the Baltic on the return journey with stays in Berlin, Cologne, and Paris...
...Christiania, Norway, the largest and most enthusiastic meeting was at a banquet given by the Student's Association, of Norway to the Ford Peace Expedition. Addresses were given by members of the Ford Party and by the most prominent Norwegians. At the banquet a gift by Mr. Ford of $10,000 to the Student's Association of Norway was announced, which should go toward the erection of a new Association building. One of the Norwegian delegates, chosen as a member of the final neural conference to meet at the Hague, is a Harvard graduate...