Word: norwegians
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...came they expected it from Dutch and Belgian ports taken fortnight ago, from Norwegian beachheads taken in April, and perhaps from Eire, where beachheads might be established with the quisling connivance of the Irish Republican Army. Experts expected landing parties to concentrate on the southeast lowlands of England-Kent, the Thames valley, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk-with diversions in the Scottish lowlands and in Wales, for the invasion's main target would be the munitions-making Midlands. This plan has been openly recommended by Ewald Banse, professor of military science at Brunswick Technological Institute, whose writings have great weight...
Died. Anders Undset-Svarstad, 26, son of Norwegian Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Sigrid Undset; defending his country; somewhere in Norway...
Churchill made no great oration, but his was an honest exposition of the Norwegian failure and an earnest plea for national unity. Thunderous cheers, the attention given to his every syllable, his own confident manner proved that Winston Churchill had not underestimated his ability to take blame and get away with it. In the 50 minutes that he spoke he demonstrated also that he was the one man present who commanded the respect of a vast majority of the House. As Big Ben struck the hour of n, he called for a vote of confidence on the question of adjournment...
Irked by the namby-pamby utterances of Cabinet members, particularly the Lord President of the Council, Earl Stanhope, Laborite Morrison flew into a fair frenzy, shouting: "The efforts of that ministerial misfit, Lord Stanhope, to turn the Norwegian withdrawal into something like a victory is typical irresponsibility based on the assumption that the British can't take it. Well, the British can take it, even if His Lordship...
...World War I, up to 1917, Britain bought 660,000 bbl. of baleen oil for $185 a ton (normal: $120-125 a ton). At that time blockaded Germany was paying $1,500 a ton for such oil as she could get. This time, Britain contracted to take all the Norwegian oil for margarine. Next autumn, whether Norway is German-dominated or not, her great fleet of whaling ships will be out again in force, and so will those of other whaling nations, except perhaps Germany. In five years Dr. Murphy expects whaling to stop-for the simple reason that commercially...