Word: scandinavia
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...England proudly announced that it had laid mines across its enemy's life-line to Swedish iron ore. Norway protested, and Germany struck. This time there were no press campaigns, flying diplomatic visits, or ultimatums. In the old familiar pattern of war, the front has been widened into Scandinavia, and again America wonders what this move means...
...Finland proved that there are strong ties between America and Scandinavia, for American sympathy for Finland was by no means confined to a few theatre benefits in New York City. For the Midwest, though a traditional incubator of isolation, fairly teems with Andersens, Svensens and Berensens, all Americans proud of their Baltic forbears, Scandinavian isolationists who put aside their isolation mantle when the fatherland is in danger. This was a new force working toward American intervention, though a wholly understandable one. Its effect may increase with the latest incidents in Scandinavia...
Hitler may see his blitzkrieg invasion of Denmark and Norway turn into a boomerang according to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, who like most of the members of the Faculty, yesterday was noncommittal about the rapid succession of events in Scandinavia...
...invasion of Scandinavia, Germany began the real war, according to Professor Emerson, who believes that the Allies may welcome a fight in Norway as a break in the deadlock which grips the Western Front, even though the Nazis have again stolen the initiative...
...Balkans depend in turn on Germany for industrial goods. Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under the strategic hegemony of the totalitarian powers...