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Oslo Group. Because the Scandinavian nations speak nearly the same language, share the same royal family and were most ardently bound to neutrality during the War, they formed instinctively a tight little group that talked and voted alike during the early years of the League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual...
...materials. Most Danes trust that Britain would never allow Germany to invade Scandinavia but they are taking no chances. And it was with more than passive resistance in mind that Sweden's Foreign Minister lately declared: "It is my opinion that the peoples of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland will create a northern entente...
Early last week President Roosevelt began a long-expected shakeup in the U. S. diplomatic corps. He sent the Minister to Finland to Costa Rica, the Minister to the Dominican Republic to Finland, the Minister to Bolivia to the Dominican Republic. He gave the Minister to Sweden and the Ambassador to Peru each other's posts...
Reason the force of gravity decreases in low latitudes is that Earth's surface rotates faster near the Equator, generating a stronger centrifugal force which goes farther toward counteracting the gravitational pull. A good javelin throw will go a foot farther in Hongkong than in Finland. The same broad jump will be ⅜ in. longer in Texas than in Massachusetts. "Hammer throwers with Olympic aspirations," writes Dr. Kirkpatrick, "may take satisfaction in the award of the 1940 games to Tokyo rather than to Helsingfors, for a well-thrown hammer will go some 4½ in. farther in Japan than...
...from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin's genius in founding Soviet Russia was in perceiving that unless he abandoned and threw to predatory Europe great chunks of Imperial Russia he would never be permitted to get away with founding...