Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Queen Maud of Norway is English King Edward's aunt and nowhere has Britain been traditionally more welcome to rule the waves than off the Norwegian coast. Last week, however, Norway's Cabinet dared to take an acrimonious stand against the British Cabinet on the subject of whales, as 10,000 Norwegian sailors who normally man British-owned whaling ships not only struck but prisoned this British commercial fleet in the deep narrow harbor of the Sandefjord. As the ships lay at anchor, their funnels cold and smokeless, pale-eyed Norwegian seamen in blue jerseys leaned against lamp...
...annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...
...Norwegian police, who keep close and constant watch upon Leon Trotsky in his retreat near Oslo where he has been permitted to remain only on condition that he engage in no political activity whatever, inclined this week to the view that if Moscow really had anything on Trotsky as a conspirator against the life of Stalin which would stand up outside Russia, this evidence would long ago have been laid before the Norwegian Government by the Soviet Government with high-power diplomatic demands. The Norwegian Ministry of Justice recently investigated Exile Trotsky's affairs, ruled that no evidence...
...which were scrambled most of the Spanish Foreign Legion, parts of the Civil Guard, peasants whose priests had told them about Bolshevism, hired Pistoleros and boys and girls in their teens just shooting for the fun of it. It was these adolescents who killed the pregnant wife of the Norwegian Consul at San Sebastian as her trained nurse was helping her into an ambulance. That was pure, crazy REVOLUTION and it lapped and slavered at Madrid two ways, up from the South under hot-headed Original Revolutionist General Francisco Franco and down from the North under calculating, professional General Emilio...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers of A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks did not have to be told that its author was pernickety. But when they heard that he was being likened to James Joyce, they wondered how much of his doubly-translated book had come through the wash. To old-fashioned readers who could remember...