Word: koht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial help Finland might hold Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden, meeting with Denmark's Peter Munch in Oslo, agreed to pass the buck to the League of Nations. But unofficially both Norway and Sweden did all they could for Finland...
...going to be any picnic for neutrals, but faces them at the outset with grim threats to their independence. Getting right down to cases, Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko asked Swedish Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandier, Danish Foreign Minister Peter Munch and Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht what concrete assistance, if any, their countries were prepared to offer Finland in resisting the demands of Soviet Russia...
Last week in Stockholm the Foreign Ministers of the Oslo Powers met in an extraordinary conference singularly unlike those usually held twice a year to discuss routine matters. Present were Juho Eljas Erkko of Finland; Richard Sandler of Sweden; Halvdan Koht of Norway and Peter Munch of Denmark. Their agenda: to decide what answer to make to Herr Hitler's offer of non-aggression pacts...
...Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia. A kindly, wire-haired Socialist of 64, Dr. Koht lectured at Harvard seven years ago, predicted much earlier...
...Halvdan Koht, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Norway and professor of History in the University of Oslo, will give a free, public lecture on "The Social Development and Policies of Norway" on Tuesday, November, 2, at 8 o'clock in Emerson...