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Forthright Professor Artturi Virtanen, Finland's Nobel Prizewinner (1945) in chemistry, broke the long silence of his country's intelligentsia. In Stockholm for scientific talks, he set all Scandinavia agog by bluntly telling a Communist newsman...
...Chemistry prize for 1945 went to Professor Ilmari Artturi Virtanen, 50, of Finland, who is almost unknown outside Scandinavia. His specialty: agricultural biochemistry. Scandinavian dairymen are grateful to him for a method of preserving green cattle fodder with minimum loss of food value...
...Just as the Government is willing to give, so it claims the right to deal with France, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia or other countries - not a Western bloc - for all purposes. ... I say I am entitled, on behalf of the Government, to have good neighbors on my street, just as any other country is entitled to have good neighbors on its street. . . You will probably think I am a little energetic about this. But I am a little resentful and I think the House will agree I am entitled to be. . . ." Churchill on the Bomb. The atomic bomb...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
...summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...