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...Norwegian people confirmed this rash act by a national plebiscite, only 184 voting to preserve the Union of Sweden & Norway, while 368,211 were for independence. But that did not settle who was to be King of Norway. There was much talk of choosing the late Explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, in his less famed role of Norwegian statesman, had ceaselessly striven to free his country...
...Sweden let Norway go so easily? It was there that Edward VII helped the Norns. Fridtjof Nansen could not have brought the pressure upon Stockholm which London brought. The new King of Norway as one of his first, most gracious acts appointed Explorer Nansen First Minister of the Kingdom of Norway to the Court of St. James...
Elected. Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany, 62, Graf Zeppelin commander; to be president of the Aero Arctic Society, succeeding the late Fridtjof Nansen of Norway (died May 13); in Berlin...
Last week the Don Cossacks arrived for a first U. S. tour. They entered the country on "Nansen passes" (devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen to aid Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave...
Polar Fears. Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen persuaded the Aero-Arctic Society to hire the Graf Zeppelin for a North Polar excursion next May. Preparations went smoothly until last week when Dr. Hugo Eckener asked his crew whether they would go. His age (61) and physical condition would prevent his going, but Captain Ernst Lehmann, who piloted the airship on her last trans-Atlantic voyage, would lead. Half the crew, remembering the wreck of Explorer Mobile's Italia, refused to endure the anticipated arctic hardships, dangers. Captain Lehmann refused to travel with the newly trained men he would be obliged...