Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of this action was evident. A year ago carriers could not have penetrated Norwegian waters without grave risk; the Nazis were keeping up a stout cover of land-based fighters over the shipping which must supplement Norway's rudimentary railroad system. The carrier-borne attack which crippled the Tirpitz showed that the cover was thinning. Last week's communique indicated that it was practically nonexistent. The Germans needed all their fighters to protect the heartland...
...agreement with the Norwegian Government in Exile, Sweden will advance credits, begin making and storing goods to be used in Norwegian reconstruction. Anticipated volume...
Greta Garbo, three years after her last movie Two Faced Woman, signed for a part in a film about the convoy-valiant Norwegian Merchant Marine. She took the otherwise undescribed role at the urging of Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne...
...believe that young Norwegian Nazi's "prizewinning dream" (TIME, March 6) demonstrates better than anything we can write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying...
...Norwegian Embassy Washington...