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...least of the late Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's services to mankind was his creation, as League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees after the War. of identification passports known as Nansen Certificates for unfortunates unable to get passports from any country. Recently a Nansen Certificate was issued in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Lubinsky, resident since 1929 on the Island of Prinkipo. Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Trotsky, Lubinsky & Bronstein | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...SAGA or FRIDTJOF NANSEX-Jon Sorensen-Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Viking ancestors would have approved the first part of the late great Fridtjof Nansen's life, would have misunderstood or laughed at the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...repatriating nearly half a million prisoners belonging to more than 30 different nations, of relieving "1,250,000 Greek, 1,000,000 Russian, 300,000 Armenian and some tens of thousands of Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean, Bulgarian and Turkish refugees." When Death came for him suddenly in 1930 at 69, Fridtjof Nansen, tall and spare as ever but his hair snow white, was sitting in his garden, thinking thoughts that no biographer can ever tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

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