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...characters, often wish they could be in two places at once. The Netherlands last week did its best to make the trick possible. When Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees formed a new government, after a 65-day cabinet crisis, he appointed not one but two Foreign Ministers. No. 1: Johan Beyen, 55, former executive of a soap company and a political independent. No. 2: Career Diplomat Joseph Luns, 41, a member of the Catholic Party. The dual appointment had a political reason (the Catholics were determined to have the Foreign Minister's post), but it also had a practical...
Last Christmas two young Swedes got drunk together. Johan Fritiof Enbom, pale, slim and 33, began bragging to his roommate of his exploits as a secret service agent. Soon, his boasting gave way to remorse. Enbom's roommate drank in the whole startling story, then hurried to the police...
Last week Johan Enbom sat in the witness stand in a Stockholm courtroom, the first of seven Swedes to go on trial for espionage. They had, the government charged, given the Russians secrets of Sweden's vital northern defense line abreast of Finland. Required to stand trial, though he had pleaded guilty, Enbom freely told the whole story. He had been sure war was coming, he explained, and it was his duty to "smooth the Red armies' path to liberate Sweden from the dreaded Western occupation...
...Minneapolis, the Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 872,000) voted approval of a merger with the other four churches in the American Lutheran Conference (American Lutheran Church, United Evangelical Lutheran Church, Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lutheran Free Church). Actual union, warned Church President Johan A. Aasgaard, may take a dozen years more...
...Died. Johan Nygaardsvold, 72, Norway's Premier in exile during World War II; in Trondheim. Scorning demands of unconditional surrender when the Germans invaded his country in 1940, he turned 80% of the Norwegian fleet over to the Allies, organized last-ditch resistance until, barely escaping Germans and Quislings, he fled to England...