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...Berlin, Realmleader Hitler took the first steps towards adding Nordic Norway to his Reich, thereby approaching slightly nearer his Mein Kampf dream of a Nazi Empire of 250,000,000. Declaring that through its resistance to "protection" the Norwegian Government had affiliated itself with the Allies, he proclaimed a state of war, placed the occupied sections of Norway under a Reich Commissar, and assigned Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo the task of "pacifying" the country. To exercise supreme Government authority in Norway, Hitler sent to Oslo one of his youngest and most ardent disciples, 42-year-old Josef Terboven, Gauleiter...
Triste; Prelude to The Tempest (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume VI of the definitive Sibelius Society set, magnificently performed and recorded. These miscellaneous pieces, ranging from Op. 9 to Op. 109a, are nearly all bleak, bardic, Nordic, at times sound as relevant to contemporary Finland as an air-raid alarm...
...first reaction to the war's end was otherwise. Like torrents freed by the sudden thawing of some great northern river, the peace let loose a worldwide flood of emotions - sorrow, anger, fear, pride, guilt, frustration, shock, hatred. On the one side, tearful Finns quoted an old Nordic saying: "Sorrows are our reins, bad days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating...
...self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin D., or as that Roosevelt; Swedes either speak of good Per Albin or use certain short Nordic adjectives...
...French girl of the middle classes and up is on no Nordic romantic pedestal but serene in her father's provision of a suitable marriage portion practically guaranteed to attract an acceptable fiance. Or if there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot...