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...succeed in pushing back the German Army in Norway and disrupting its communications across the Skagerrak, Germany will have urgent military need to send supplies and support through Sweden. Conversely, the Allies, if they succeed in taking Narvik, might be tempted to seize the Swedish iron-ore mines at Kiruna and Gällivare. Sweden did not think this likely but fear of it might give Germany another motive for invasion...
...Germans will extend their operations to Sweden very shortly. This action should aid, rather than hamper, the democracies, however, since they will be able to campaign in Scandinavia with total disregard of political frontiers and the British chances of cutting off all ore shipments to Germany from the Kiruna field will be measurably improved...
...game with a bad hand. His hand was strengthened before the week was out by the British capture of Narvik. If Britain establishes a strong force there, Germany will have to think twice before invading Sweden. It is only 84 miles from Narvik to the Swedish iron mines at Kiruna, 125 miles to the mines at Gällivare, and Britons could probably reach the mines before the Germans. But Premier Hansson had still other problems. For what he mortally fears is that Sweden may become a battleground not for two, but for three belligerents. Russia has to be reckoned...
Adding 39,960 sq. mi. to Michigan was only an incident in Mr. Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "A Visit to the Iron Mines of Gellivare and Kiruna, Lapland, Sweden." (Illustrated.) Professor Wolff. "Recent Meteorological Text-Books." Professor Ward. Mineralogical Lecture Room...