Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Middle Ages Sweden was successively the terror of Russia and of Germany. The great Russian trading centre Novgorod was founded originally by Swedish corsairs; they pressed down the Dnepr River and into the Black Sea to trade with "Miklagarth the Golden" as they called Istanbul in their Sagas...
Dearest Hopes. In 1914 the Malmö Conference of the Three Kings agreed that Scandinavia would try to keep out of World War I while trading to beat the band with all belligerents. Last week in Stockholm it was already clear that World War II is not going to be...
Prince Gustaf served as a young man in the Swedish Army, began to step out, travel and see the world when as Crown Prince in 1878 he paid his first visit to England. There, so far as Sweden was concerned, he "discovered tennis," proceeded to popularize the game in Scandinavia...
How devastating the consequences of War II may be for the Nordic States no man can foresee. But with their democratic friends embattled far down the North Sea, and their totalitarian neighbors creeping across and along the Baltic, tears and tennis, trees and testimonials may well be not enough to...
Bermudians were sad about the war, but they were sadder to lose their good, gold-laden friends, the American tourists. Instead of arriving at an average rate of 5,000 per month, tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip...