Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegian play acted in English on an American stage by a Greek actress is a combination to raise even the most imperturbable eyebrow. When the play is Ibsen's, the actress is Katina Paxinou, and the lines are streamlined in a modernized translation, the result is enough to raise the other eyebrow and a good round of applause to boot. Though in any production of "Hedda Gabler" Henrik Ibsen must remain the outstanding attraction, Mrs. Paxinou interprets the role with challenging individuality. Her sensitivity and restraint as the neurotic and theatrical Hedda prevent her overdoing a part that...
...Norwegians in the U.S. had a new yarn last week: A German officer, admiring models of ancient Viking ships in a museum in Norway, murmured that they were fine-looking craft, even in these days. A Norwegian boy standing beside him said: "Oh, yes, we used to invade England every spring in them...
More than 200 Norwegians accompanied the raiders back to England, there to join the Royal Norwegian Government-in-Exile. Those remaining behind prepared stolidly for the reprisals sure to come-in their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...
When the raid ended six hours later, the German center lay in ruins. The British killed 120 German soldiers, captured 95 others and nine Norwegian quislings, destroyed oil tanks, ammunition stores, a factory, a radio station, five merchant ships, two armed trawlers, an armed tug, four planes, a lone Nazi tank. British losses; eleven planes, "superficial" damage to warships, "extremely light" casualties...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...