Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while chatting with a Norwegian lady one unwittingly refers to "the time when Norway was a part of Sweden," the chances are four out of five that hot tears of indignation will rush to her light blue eyes...
Proudly last week all Norway celebrated the kingdom's "Silver Jubilee," the 25th anniversary of the ascension of a 100% Norwegian throne by His Majesty Haakon VII. The last exclusively Norwegian King, Haakon VI, died 550 years...
Nine long years passed. The spirit of Norwegian nationalism was spontaneously stirring. On June 7, 1905 the Norwegian Prime Minister informed his royal master the King of Sweden & Norway that he was only King of Sweden. On Aug. 13 the Norwegian people confirmed this rash act by a national plebiscite, only 184 voting to preserve the Union of Sweden & Norway, while 368,211 were for independence. But that did not settle who was to be King of Norway. There was much talk of choosing the late Explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, in his less famed role of Norwegian statesman, had ceaselessly...
...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...
Queen Maud spends much of her time in her native land (Crown Prince Olav of Norway was born in England, went to Oxford). But emphatically the Norwegian people do not consider their Royal Family "strangers." Money for the Jubilee celebration was unhesitatingly voted by the municipality of Oslo, Socialist though...