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...Rumania is suffering from the worst drought in 50 years. . . . The average Norwegian must wait one full year before he can hope to have a new pair of shoes. Stockings are unobtainable. . . . The resistance of Europe is low. Tuberculosis is rife. The very young and the very old especially are beginning to die in droves as the autumn leaves fall...
...other honors, Elder Statesman Cordell Hull could now add the Nobel Peace Prize for 1945.* Explained the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, which announced its first peace award since 1938, in Oslo this week: Hull, the eighth American to be so tapped, had done most to lay the foundations for the San Francisco Conference...
...only war trials so far have been conducted by national courts, like the Norwegian tribunal which sentenced Vidkun Quisling. The first international trials will begin at Nürnberg late this month, when 23 top-drawer German defendants are brought to bar. A checklist of some of those already judged by national courts...
...Recent manifestation: an effort to rename leprosy Hansen's disease, after the Norwegian who isolated the bacillus some 70 years...
...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...