Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once the war was won, German would be declared the official language of Europe. English and Russian would be outlawed promptly; Danish, Dutch, Polish, French, Norwegian and Swedish were to be tolerated for a decade...
Soviet Russia insistently asked for air bases on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen. The democratic world, remembering reports that Communist influence had gripped postliberation Norway, waited for Norway's answer. On Feb. 15, in a secret session, the Norwegian Parliament took up neighbor Russia's request. This week Oslo let out the news: Parliament, by 101 votes to 11, had voted "No." The 11, of course, were Communists...
Party Clothes. One night last week, Ethridge left a party aboard the French cruiser Georges Leygues (which had carried him to Greece) and returned to the Hotel Acropole Palace, the Commission's headquarters. There, Commission Secretary Roscher-Lund, a Norwegian, excitedly confronted him with piles of petitions asking the Commission to intercede for the condemned five. Some were signed by families, many by carefully organized Leftist groups. Ethridge and Lund called up Alexis Kyrou, liaison man with the Greek Government, who arrived in a state of urbane sleepiness; they told him "unofficially" that it might be a good idea...
...National Assembly and Supreme Court, waited more than an hour before deciding that the U.N. Secretary-General had stood them up. Lie, reportedly annoyed when his official chauffeur got lost or mislaid, proceeded to Cuba. Panamanians were most piqued because they had ransacked the neighborhood for a Norwegian flag for the occasion...
Scandinavian 12. Danish and Dano-Norwegian. Reading of selected texts. Half-course (spring term). Hours to be arranged. Dr. Mitchell...