Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WINTER'S TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
Berggrav's militant Christianity has brought about a resurgence of religious fervor not only in Norway but throughout Scandinavia. Last week Dr. Gustav Aulen, Sweden's Bishop of Strängnäs (near Stockholm) paid a public tribute to his brother imprisoned in the Oslo cottage: "Berggrav's spirit has gone free through closed doors and has witnessed that God's words bear no chains. He and Norway's martyr Church are living testimonies . . . that no violent power can annihilate the life borne by God's spirit...
...President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest of Scandinavia, including Norway's port of Narvik. Said Ryti this week, when he was sworn in as the first President to succeed himself: "Finland longs for peace but we cannot see any signs...
...This time the Allies have only about 25,000,000 tons afloat, but the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia, and, for practical purposes, of Spain" [TIME, June...
...dead-aim calculation, a fine disregard of precedent to give the answers he had made to the questions which were posed him. In World War I the Allies, with a pool of about 20,000,000 tons of shipping, drew 60% of their supplies from France, Scandinavia and Spain. They threw their 100% largely at Germany on the Western Front. This time the Allies have only about 3,000,000 tons afloat. But the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources...