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With Norway's Government now officially one of the Allies, Norwegian shipping is subject to Allied control. In terms of tonnage, this is important because five-sixths of Norway's merchant fleet, the world's fourth largest (4,834,902 tons), is within the Allies' reach and out of Germany's at ports around the world. In conducting their blockade of Scandinavia, the Allies need no longer judge between essentials for the Scandinavians and possible contraband for Germany. Though stretched and strained a bit by new German threats from Norway's headlands, the northern...
...Another Norwegian campaign is due to open. ... It will be waged against the War Cabinet in the House of Commons. . . . Chamberlain will be under fire," wrote the London Daily Mail last week as the full gravity of the Norwegian debacle filtered through the blackout of official information. That Hitler had succeeded in snatching a neutral state from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know, said Laborite Ellen Wilkinson, how Hitler could seize Norway "with...
...speech of reassuring forensic shocks, stupefied M. P.s learned: 1) that although aware "for many months" of German transport and troop accumulations at Baltic ports, the Allies were unprepared for a northern Nazi thrust, the troops assembled for aiding Finland having been dispersed; 2) that the mining of the Norwegian waters on April 8 coincided purely by "curious chance" with the Nazi coup; 3) that although the Nazis invaded Denmark and Norway on April 8, the first British naval forces did not land at Namsos until April 14 and the first British troops arrived at Åndalsnes only on April...
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...