Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secondary outcome of peace in the North last week was a journey undertaken by Adolf Hitler down to Brennero, Italy to talk more peace and more war with his ambiguous Fascist partner. For Germany the Russian victory looked fine. Her Swedish iron ore was safe. Her northern flank was shielded. Her prestige was generally conceded upped. Russia was now free. The Allies and their unfulfilled promises were fair bait for sarcasm...
...Allied powers that particularly appealed to the French. The deadlock on the Western Front was not popular, and the newspapers in France spoke of the. hunt for new battlefields. Moreover, the removal of the war to Scandinavia would have given an opportunity to cut off the iron-ore exports to Germany. ... It suffices to point out that the Swedish Government was fully convinced that the appearance of Allied troops in Sweden must bring with it the transfer of the war to Sweden. The Swedish people would have been dragged into...
...peace on the Baltic, with no Allied intervention, meant uninterrupted shipments of ore from Sweden to Germany...
...number of Allied warships let their presence be known. Ostensibly they were an extension of the North Atlantic blockade, which stretches to Iceland. They were there to prevent Germany from getting seaborne supplies from northern Russia. Perhaps also they would interfere with future shipments of Swedish and Norwegian iron ore to Germany through Norway's coastal waters, and prevent German submarines from using Murmansk as a base, or Russian submarines from going to help the Germans. Perhaps-though this was not yet demonstrable-they were the advance guard for Allied supplies or even an Allied expeditionary force for beleaguered...
Class of 1942: Alan J. Ansen, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y., Eugene S. Austin, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.; Marvin G. Barrett, Des Moines, Iowa; J. Malcolm Barter, Beverly; Ralph B. Bennett Jr., The Dalles, Ore; Warren M. Cannon, Independence...