Word: johans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Hjalmar Johan Procope, 54, just-deported Finnish Minister to the U.S. (TIME, June 26); and Margaret Shaw Procope, 33, his British-born wife, who was given permission to remain in the U.S. for the birth: their third child, a son; in Washington. Weight...
...Hjalmar Johan Procopé entered a side door of the gloomy old State Department, was ushered into the office of the protocol chief, bald, urbane George T. Summerlin. Fifteen minutes later Mr. Procopé hurried out, brusque and ruffled. The Finnish Minister to the U.S. had been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...
...other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
...throne is Prince Gustaf Adolf, a mere youngster of 37 with three charming daughters, Margaretha, Birgitta and Désirée.* The daughter, Ingrid, is married to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The second son, Sigvard, married a commoner. The other two sons, Bertil and Carl Johan, are with the Swedish Navy and Army...
Peace for Finland seemed as remote as ever last week, after President Risto Ryti chose pro-Axis Edvin Johan Linkomies to organize a new Cabinet...