Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devastating Consequences!" In international politics, Sweden has no wish nor much chance to make a grand slam. Her wealth and her small but efficiently equipped Army make her a national leader in the so-called Oslo Group (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Finland, Belgium-Luxembourg Trade Union) which overlaps the so-called Northern Neutrals (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). These groups pursue a ceaseless European activity for lowered customs barriers, mobilization of Europe's remaining moral forces against aggression, and until lately they were the energetic champions of the League of Nations, now admittedly defunct...
Pointedly Mr. Woodrum read the record of Mr. Fish's Grand Tour of Europe's chancelleries last August: Fish's arrival in Oslo in the personal airplane of Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister; Fish's proposal to the Inter-Parliamentary Union of a 30-day armistice for the "four great powers" to settle European problems; Fish's statement that Germany's claims are "just." Mr. Woodrum passed over Mr. Fish's modest willingness, expressed in Berlin, to arbitrate the Danzig dispute personally...
Died. Heinrich ("Henry the Long," "Uncle Sahm") Sahm, 62, first (and tallest: 6 ft. 6 in.) president of the Danzig Senate, onetime Mayor of Berlin (he was removed for patronizing Jewish stores), German Minister to Norway; in Oslo, Norway...
...OSLO, Norway--An unidentified warship, seen limping southward under cover of a heavy smoke screen, was believed to have been crippled in a naval battle that shook the western coast of Norway for 10 hours today with the rumble of heavy shelling...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...