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Tomorrow afternoon four members of the skiing team will compete in the annual Nansen Ski Club race, which will be held this year over the new Mount Washington ski trail, H. B. Washburn '33 announced last night. The captain for next year's team will be elected after the race...
...least of the late Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen's services to mankind was his creation, as League of Nations Commissioner for Refugees after the War. of identification passports known as Nansen Certificates for unfortunates unable to get passports from any country. Recently a Nansen Certificate was issued in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Lubinsky, resident since 1929 on the Island of Prinkipo. Turkey...
...Nansen Certificate in his pocket, the straggle-chinned little Russian wrapped himself in a thick overcoat, hurried with his wife and bodyguard to Istanbul where they boarded the steamer Praga bound for Marseilles. Objective of the Trotsky trip is Copenhagen, where Mrs. Trotsky is to undergo medical treatment and Comrade Trotsky, still leader of anti-Stalin Communists, is to deliver a lecture at the University. On shipboard Mr. Lubinsky seemed pleased but nervous. For two hours before the ship sailed from Turkey he hid in his cabin. Reporters reported that he carried a pistol. When the Praga called at Athens...
Though sometimes tempted, Nansen made no more Arctic voyages, handed over the Pram to Roald Amundsen. A public figure now, he was needed at home...
When Sweden and Norway separated in 1905. Nansen's diplomacy was useful in keeping the separation peaceful. He became Norway's first Minister to the Court of St. James's. During the War he served on the Norwegian Trade Commission to the U. S., helped keep his country, pinched between belligerents, from starving. After the War, as High Commissioner of the League of Nations, he soon became recognized as one of Europe's rare internationalists, helped refugees and starving populations wherever he could, regardless of political boundaries. The League credited him with repatriating nearly half...