Word: johan
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...spot at the core of the dispute has been the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile, whose hard work has been overshadowed by a stubborn desire to pin down their country to the pre-war status quo. This attitude stands in sharp contrast to that of Norway's Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold, who last week in a message to his people outlined post-war reconstruction plans, and added: "The present Government does not do this with any thought that it is to retain power and look after the administration of Norway after the liberation...
Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...
There was something in the air at Stockholm also. The arrival in Stockholm of Finnish Premier Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Trade Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner, Supply Minister Henrik Ramsay and onetime Premier Juho Kusti Paasikivi, started rumors that Finland was asking Russia for peace. Finns claimed these important ministers were in Stockholm to discuss food only, but this subject is closely related to peace in Finnish minds...
...exiled Royal Government of Norway advanced ?50,000 last week to help keep the war-orphaned Norwegian Lutheran missions going in China, the Cameroons, South Africa. Manchuria, Madagascar. Cut off from home support by the Nazi invasion, the Norse missionaries will get their aid through the Rev. Johan Arnd Aasgaard of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America since 1925. Administrator Aasgaard believes this is the first time in history that a government has financed a church's foreign missions, considers it a dramatic proof that "the Allied forces are fighting for Christianity and democracy...
...Died. Johan Egbert Frederik de Kok, 58, general managing director of Royal Dutch Co. (successor to the late, great Henri Deterding), able amateur flier; of heart disease; at The Hague...