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...Baltic Sea separating Sweden and Finland is the ticklish spot in Sweden's naval strategy. Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being passed around among Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Russia, they now belong to Finland. They were heavily fortified by the Russian Tsars and in the closing years of the War they became the object of a free-for-all among the Bolsheviks, the Red & White Finns, the Swedes and the Germans. The Islanders themselves howled...
...posted for nonpayment of dues. Out of 30,000,000 gold francs (Swiss) due from member nations in 1934, more than 14,000,000 francs remain unpaid. Even punctilious Britain still owes 1,000,597 francs for the year. The League secretariat could only list twelve nations (Canada, Denmark, Spain, India, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, Holland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey) that are not in arrears...
When Ruth Bryan Owen, gracious U. S. Minister to Denmark, expressed a desire to come home by way of Greenland, the Danish Government insisted that she travel as its guest. The Danish Premier saw her off at the boat and the Danish administrator for Greenland escorted her to his territory. Mrs. Owen suggested that perhaps a U. S. Coast Guard boat on ice patrol could take her from Greenland to the U. S. The State Department, knowing full well that the ice patrol ended in August, presented her request to the Treasury. No man to refuse his country...
Explosions of derision and disbelief immediatety followed publication of Dr. von Bremer's ideas in the U. S. Cockroaches have been blamed for causing cancer by no less a person than Nobel Prizewinner Johannes Fibiger of Denmark. Many a lesser light has offered a variant of the germ theory. Subtle irritants, chemical or mechanical, have been suggested. Likewise cancer has been attributed to nervous strain, city life, life itself, breakdown of individual body cells, degeneracy of the entire constitution...
...dollar abdicated all title to that regal role Mr. Chamberlain's task has been much eased. Last week the Canadian dollar was not pegged to Sterling as were the currencies of all other Dominions. Currencies of the following countries now move in close sympathy with Sterling: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil...