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...been four and a half years since the Wehrmacht swooped down on thunderstruck Norway in April 1940. Now, as the Nazi sun was sinking, the first little sliver of Norway was freed. Last week, far north in the Arctic, where Norway borders on Finland, the Russians pounded over the line in pursuit of the Germans, then took over the iron-ore port of Kirkenes, used by the Germans as a submarine and air base against the Allied northern sea route to Russia, and fought on some 15 miles westward...
Large-scale Norwegian liberation may await either voluntary German withdrawal or British landings in the south. Russia was primarily interested in chasing Germans out of Finland, and the Russian pursuit was expected to go little farther than the Tana River, some 70 miles west of Kirkenes. The Russian drive will also free the Murmansk supply route from German air attacks...
Unlike Rumania and Finland, Bulgaria did not have to pay $300,000,000 reparations, but the extent of Bulgarian reparations will be determined later...
Fair-skinned Dr. Dam, 49, is a Dane who taught biochemistry in Copenhagen until the Germans came. Then he managed to reach the U.S. via Finland, is now doing research in biochemistry at the University of Rochester's medical school. In the early '30s he noticed that baby chicks on a restricted diet had tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from...
...Russia's planned economy of purpose in getting Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland out of the war was any clue, Russia had a plan for Germany. Almost certainly the plan involved the National Committee for Free Germany and the League of German Officers...