Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have] worked out ways and means of keeping war away from this hemisphere. I pray God that we shall not have to do more than that; but should it be necessary, I am convinced that we would be wholly successful." When Mr. Roosevelt spoke (by radio), war in Scandinavia was seven days old, and its westward impact was heavy upon him. During the first fogged days of battle (see p. 19), he and his military advisers wondered whether their profound dependence on the British fleet for protection in the Atlantic was misplaced. British successes later eased that fear...
Logical French minds reacted swiftly to invasion of Scandinavia by pouncing on all sorts of precise political, economic and military points seen in Paris as adding up to a handsome total favoring the Allies...
Night after the Germans pounced on Scandinavia last week, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Swedish Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior and German Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium...
...Antarctica. The tireless tramps of Norway, No. 4 world seafarer, carry the bulk of Cuban sugar shipments to the U. S., play a bigger part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs and 25% of her butter supply from Denmark, and Denmark's animals were fed in part by corn, cottonseed cake, etc. from Great Britain, Brazil, Argentina...
...There seems to be little possibility of such a move in any but the very distant future, however. Even at the beginning of the war, the German navy was not strong enough to carry on extensive overseas activities, and if we are to credit any of the reports from Scandinavia, the German navy must have been weakened greatly at the Skaggerak and the surrounding waters...