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...Norwegian sheriff and two Germans walked up to Odd Nansen's house and arrested him. Odd was the son of Fridtjof Nansen, the famed Arctic explorer,* a well-known architect and a friend of Norway's royal family (which was his crime...
Miss Thompson, ever a brilliant rationalizer of ideas, says that her plan developed largely from conversations with German Credit Expert Moritz Schlesinger, friend of the late great Refugee Worker Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. It consists, in its simplest terms, of an international corporation for trading in refugees. Capital for this company, tentatively called "International Resettlement Co.," would take the form of billions of dollars of blocked German marks, Hungarian pengos, Rumanian lei, etc., now owed refugees and foreign investors who cannot collect them outside the countries in question. The corporation would contract to evacuate a batch of refugees, offering the emigrating...
...exact antipodes from Little America. The erroneous press reports probably arise from misinterpretation of Krenkel's remarks that his present radio equipment is based on his (communication) experience with the Byrd Expedition in 1930. Occasional two-way radio communication with station RPX of the Russian Polar Expedition on Fridtjof Nansen (Franz Joseph) Land constituted one of the most interesting outside connections to us at Little America during 1929-30; when we reported sitting down to supper during the Antarctic summer of continuous daylight, the Russians remarked they were just eating their breakfast in the middle of their Polar night...
Major Quisling was the late, great Fridtjof Nansen's chief aide in feeding 1,600,000 starving Russians with food donated by the Red Crosses of eleven European states. During that episode...
...heavy object'' brought up in a net had been identified as part of the plane, but had broken through the net and been lost again. The Norwegian Government wondered whether other identifiable wreckage had been found, ordered an investigation, stood ready to send the Arctic ship Fridtjof Nansen promptly to Bear Island...