Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific societies. . . . But how can they be found out? I propose that a list be made up of all such Germans who committed dangerous actions to help innocent victims of Nazi persecution. . . . Let such a list come from refugees, Christian and Jewish and Russian and Polish and French and Norwegian. Each refugee knows a few such Germans. Let these refugees know that the names procured will be kept completely secret. . . . This list will be given to the commanders of the victorious armies of the United Nations who shall put these good Germans to the job of initiating the rebirth...
...sketchy story of a violent, running battle early in December between U-boat packs and a great United Nations convoy was released last week by London. Escorting warships of the British, Polish and Norwegian navies sighted the submarines first in mid-Atlantic and for four days, in light and darkness, fought off the raiders with gunfire and depth charges. U.S. Navy and British Coastal Command planes patrolled the skies, swooping down on any sub bold enough to surface. Two submarines were probably destroyed. "Some" cargo carriers were sunk. The rest of the convoy, part of it probably destined for Russia...
...morale-engineers one was Norwegian, one a Dane, one a Canadian, the rest Englishmen out of reach of their own nation's draft laws. Among them: Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin. Last summer they were classified 1-A. They were facing induction in November when Brigadier General Ames T. Brown, New York Selective Service director, ordered the cases reopened after an MRA leader approached him with an introduction from Representative James W. Wadsworth of New York, co-author of Selective Service...
...reason is that Commandos unwisely attempts to combine two pictures in one. Picture No. 2-the raid-is overshadowed by Picture No. 1-the stirring story of the Norwegian fishing village where the raid eventually takes place. Acted with superb restraint by Paul Muni and an excellent cast including Elizabeth Fraser, Ray Collins and Lillian Gish (in her first picture since His Double Life in 1934), the story tells about the transformation of the villagers after the arrival of motorized Nazi soldiers, who strike the quiet village with the impact of a powder-plant explosion. The peaceful villagers, goaded...
...escapes to England to lead back a Commando expedition, the mood of the picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...