Word: scandinavia
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Accompanying Trotsky in his weary Odyssey from Russia through Turkey, Scandinavia, and ultimately to Mexico, the boxes and dossiers of documents had an interesting history. Apparently certain items are still in war-torn Europe, and while it is hoped that they may eventually wend their way to the Treasure Room, copies of the originals are believed to be included among the new Harvard acquisitions...
...object of this maneuver was to outwit Adolf Hitler. Large quantities of British paper money arriving in South America, the U. S. and other neutral countries had warned Britain of what was going on. In Poland, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, Belgium and France, before they were conquered, citizens hoarded sterling notes. Hitler had evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting. At any rate he was using British money to finance his war on Britain. Britain's move turned this prized valuta...
Insisting that Germany always wanted peace and sought only to strike off the shackles of the Versailles Treaty, he reiterated his assertion that the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia and the Low Countries was merely a measure to forestall Allied aggression. Then he launched into a step-by-step review of Germany's victorious campaigns, heaping praise on his fighters, some of whom had just paraded into Berlin, on triumphant leave. He lauded his Italian ally. Germany is now stronger even than at the outbreak of war, he boasted, and Russo-German relations have been firmly established, with their respective...
...Scandinavia. The Swedish Riksdag met in secret session for the third time since World War II began. Reason: conditions in Norway, where the German-controlled press was agitating for new Storting elections to depose King Haakon VII and set up a Nazi Government. Whether Norway would again be united with Sweden, or Sweden simply dominate Scandinavia under German direction, Hitler's Northern Union seemed destined to be realized...
...imports of iron ore from Scandinavia...