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...Beaming Scouts from Venezuela, Latvia, China, Finland, squatted cross-legged side by side with beaming scouts from Siani, France, Australia, many another country, watched U. S. Scouts perform on the parade ground. They watched exhibitions of wrestling, mimic warfare, campfire making, model house building...
...stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia's huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö Island at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland, not far from St. Petersburg itself. Twenty years before, Dagö Island had been colonized by good industrious Swedes who fished in the Gulf and made hay on the salt marshes. In 1787, Peter's grand-daughter-in-law, plump, passionate Catherine II grew tired of this Swedish colony practically at her doorstep...
Among the nations granting free visas to U. S. citizens: Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Russia...
...England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other 40% was to be sold to citizens of the countries concerned. It is said, however, that Mr. Ford...