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...believe we are about to see a decisive test of the strength of the British fleet in the face of the superior German air force. It is very possible that Nazi bombers will be able to prevent British transports from reaching Norwegian shores...
...well-known family of international diplomats is that of Gade (rhymes with dada), which stems from the late Gerhard Gade, onetime Norwegian Minister to the U. S. His son. Captain John A. Gade. is U. S. Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
Like Russian Ambassador Maisky, Norwegian Minister Erik Colban was kept busy in London last week hot-footing it around to the Foreign Office to protest fresh indignities suffered by his country at the hands of Great Britain, in her course of trying to throttle Germany. British aircraft had flown over Norwegian territory scouting for German ships using Norway's coastal sea lanes. British warships had entered Norwegian water to sink German ships. One of them fired a shot across a German's bow and the shell landed ashore, albeit unexploded, near the Varhaug railway station on Norway...
...they sighted a German warship. One German submarine, a 250-ton U-21-type with a boyish crew of 28 aboard (apparently for training) hugged the coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten, with a fine show of strict Norwegian neutrality...
That Great Britain's North Sea patrol let her pass was not surprising. That Germany let her go was. For Allied commerce leans heavily on neutral shipping, and the Norwegian-flag Skandinavia (which will run from the Gulf to South America) will free replacements for some of the 100,000 tons of tankers the Germans have sunk to date. Probable explanation: confabs between Texas Corp.'s Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber and the German Admiralty...