Word: norwegians
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Norway has never recognized the claim of Denmark that all Greenland is Danish. Norwegians have quietly thought and quietly said for years that Eastern Greenland north of Scoresby Sound is Norwegian. Last week this Arctic crisis, forgotten for years and quiescent as a cake of ice, suddenly thawed and melted wrathfully, boiled...
Heat was applied by Norway's new, little-known Arctic Council, constituted last January to advise the Norwegian Government about Arctic affairs. This council, composed of peppery Arctic experts, suddenly released to the Norwegian press a handout with two main points: first, the Norwegian public was warned that a Danish expedition will soon set out to explore East Greenland; second, the Council urged that the Government "draw part of East Greenland under Norwegian sovereignty," presumably by sending out a Norwegian expedition. Norway's claim to East Greenland, the Arctic Council declared, is justly based on the fact that "East Greenland...
...Copenhagen last week the Danish press acted as though the Arctic Council were the Norwegian Government, treated its recommendations as at least semiofficial. This was natural. The Arctic Council enjoys Norwegian Government support. Danes were entitled to think that Norway was about to move upon East Greenland in some way. Danes, the ebullient "Frenchmen of Scandinavia," were thus entitled to auger...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
...Manhattan, Amalia Sorenson, Norwegian waitress, and Thomas Thomassen, Norwegian laborer, sought a marriage license. Asked to swear to the truth of their application, they refused, said that they are members of the Salem Scandinavian Pentecostal Assembly in Brooklyn which bans oaths. Said Amalia Sorenson...