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...week at a meeting at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Group members returning from abroad were to tell how they had set ablaze not only Norway but also Denmark. It began in Geneva in 1933, when a Group team met, lunched and "changed'' the Hon. Carl J. Hambro, a Speaker of the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), leader of its Conservative Party. At Speaker Hambro's suggestion a team of 35 "life-changers" arrived in Norway last October, among them well-beloved Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow, spending a year of Group travel by special permission...
...fundamental principle is that League states should pay their share of the running expense. Last week Norwegian Chairman Carl Hambro of the League Budget reported that only nine states have paid their dues in full this year; that there is $1,440,000 owing for the years 1930-32; that the League will apparently have to declare itself bankrupt or obtain a loan...
...Norway, where Peace perches upon every altar of a pensive people, the action of the Arctic Council embarrassed everyone exceedingly, led to no end of tut-tutting. In the Storting (Parliament) Speaker Hambro declared: "It is important that the country and the government be not further compromised by the Arctic Council. ... Its action has called forth comment by no means flattering to Norway...
...Eric Hambro of C. J. Hambro...
Particularly joyous was Norway's Oslo. There the Storting suspended all parliamentary business while Oslo's Hambro, the nation's stern speaker, led a barking Norwegian cheer. Appropriately enough; Norsk Kron Prins Olav was not there to hear. With gallant stealth he had slipped off to Stockholm and Sveriges Princessa Märtha Sofia Lovisa Dagmar Thyra...