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William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about...
...soil. Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, a 60-year-old ex-road mender who was one of the five Socialist or quasi-Socialist Premiers among the 14 present in Paris, promptly met that expectation. Said Gerhardsen: "We have no plans in Norway to let atomic stockpiles be established on Norwegian territory, or to construct launching sites for intermediate range ballistic missiles." What was not expected was his next statement. Seizing on the fact that the U.S. does not yet have any operational IRBMs to give NATO. Gerhardsen declared: "It is our view that the right course could be to postpone...
Denmark's Hans Christian Hansen, another Socialist, echoed the Norwegian line. Then West Germany's tough-minded Chancellor Konrad Adenauer spoke up. Despite the fact that the Bulganin notes talked vaguely of a neutralized Germany -a prospect that is anathema to Adenauer-the West German Chancellor was no longer prepared to accept the U.S. lead in the matter of East-West negotiations. Said he: "I would see no objection to attempting to inquire through diplomatic channels from the Soviet government what precise conceptions form the basis of these proposals...
...Everybody's another Flagstad when I'm being told about her," grumbled the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy. But after listening to recordings, he hired Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo-Lövberg, sight unseen. Last week Soprano Lövberg, 34, a statuesque blonde, appeared in Philadelphia's Academy of Music for her American debut. Despite a deep chest cold, she sang a challenging program of arias from Beethoven's Fidelio and Wagnerian selections. Soprano Lövberg proved to be a sort of Flagstad in miniature, more lyric than dramatic, with a round, pure...
...Norwegian nightingale was born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following...