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When Norway was invaded by the Germans, Britain took charge of 3,750,000 tons of Norwegian shipping. Members of a Norwegian shipping mission in the U. S. let it be known last week that they were not happy about the British convoy system and use of Norwegian bottoms. Chief complaints...
...British convoys move slowly, only as fast as their slowest ship. Submarines go about eight to ten knots submerged, 16 to 18 on the surface. The Norwegians argue that the British should mount antisubmarine guns and anti-aircraft guns on fast Norwegian ships, let them travel independently as some fast British vessels do now. They could then outrun submerged submarines, outshoot surface ones, and take their chances against air attack. > The British make each ship wait its turn to unload in British ports, regardless of cargo value and ship's speed. The Norwegians want port priorities for fast ships...
...Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor...
...world's biggest bank. Chase National of N. Y., last week was embarked upon an attempt to solve U. S. bankers' most annoying headache: who controls the U. S. funds of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Latvian and other Russian and Nazi victims? The assets of ten such countries have already been "frozen" here by U. S. decree (estimated total on ice: around $3,000,000,000) and can be transferred only by license from the U. S. Treasury, via the Federal Reserve Bank. But even the Treasury's say-so does not free a U. S. private...
When the total points were counted at the end of the day, Dartmouth still held the lead with 194.5 points. New Hampshire moved into second place with 191.9 and the Norwegian Royal Air Force octet a close third with 190.5. Harvard University, who placed sixth in the langlauf, was in sixth place with 181.6 points...