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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden, meeting with Denmark's Peter Munch in Oslo, agreed to pass the buck to the League of Nations. But unofficially both Norway and Sweden did all they could for Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Prize, No Play | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...OSLO, Norway, Tuesday--The Norwegian Government, rejecting Germany's demand for "immediate release" of the Nazi prize crew taken from the American steamer City of Flint, announced early today that the Germans will be sent to a concentration camp...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

Precedent. Last week, when Germany embarrassed Russia by anchoring City of Flint at Murmansk, the U. S. State Department moved with calm deliberation. It asked its officials in Oslo, Moscow and Berlin for information. Alexander Kirk, chargé d'affaires in Berlin, made informal inquiries, reported the German claim that inadequate charts had forced the City of Flint to take refuge at Murmansk. What Germany demanded of Russia was not known. What the U. S. wanted was clear: it wanted information about the whereabouts and welfare of the crew. Coupled with U. S. playing down of the case, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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