Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nordics . . . invaded America's east coast. . . . That is how, one fine day, a Norwegian Storm Trooper came to be on the steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...
Nobody was lovelier than blonde, Garboesque Mme. Hägglöf, graceful bride of the Swedish Charge. Nobody was fancier than the Norwegian Ambassador wearing every shape, cast, color and size of medal, decoration and ribbon. The new Ethiopian Minister, small and black, shone in his gold-braided costume. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr walked like a new Privy Councilor, impeccable in tails. U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman looked like a nervous young curate at an Episcopal convention-out of place in his too long, double-breasted business suit which he had tried to formalize with a stiff collar...
...days after publication-so another of Scott's jobs is to follow what the people of each nation are themselves being told about how the war is going. He reads papers in German, Russian and Swedish himself-has a multilingual secretary read those in Finnish, Danish and Norwegian, telling him the high spots and translating the full text of the most important items. And very soon he plans a trip to distracted Finland to see for himself what is happening to that unhappy land...
...Ranger's greatest feat was to spearhead a British task force last October in a daring raid into Norwegian waters, well within range of German land-based bombers. In two attacks the carrier's planes sank four merchantmen, a tanker and an oil barge, damaged other ships and shot down a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 115. The carrier was undamaged, lost only three planes. When she got back to port, British warcraft "cheered the ship" as she passed down the line, in a rare salute to a U.S. Navy ship and crew...
...London's rapprochement with Algiers: a traditional, power-political desire to prepare a counterbloc in western Europe, just in case Russia establishes a rival block in the east (see p. 11). London dispatches reported that Britain and the U.S. will soon sign agreements providing for administration of liberated Norwegian, Netherlands and Belgian territories by their Governments in Exile...