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Abruptly changing front last week, because of Germany's withdrawal from the League and Disarmament Conference (TIME, Oct. 23), Premier Stauning shouted, "Our German frontier in North Slesvig is the frontier of all Scandinavia! . . . It must and will be defended by every means at our disposal. I shall consult at once with Premier Hansson [of Sweden] and Premier Mowinckel [of Norway]. . . . The time is ripe for us to forge a united Scandinavian front...
Finland's war was a savage, desperate, last-ditch fight in 1919 to hurl Russian Bolsheviks back from her beloved lakes. Finnish valor perhaps saved pink & socialist Scandinavia from going red. Exhausted though victorious, Finns obtained from the U. S. Congress credits for grain and other foodstuffs, ran $8,281,900 into debt. Three years later when President Harding offered to fund all Europe's War debt on the basis of '"capacity to pay''-payments to be made over 62 years-Finland was the first state to send a delegation which signed on Washington...
...crude effort to improve world opinion Chancellor Hitler last week sent out two "goodwill" envoys. To Britain young Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, who bears the curious title of Chief of the Foreign Politics Division of the Nazi Party. To Scandinavia one Alexander Bogs. Neither was a trained diplomat, both were more used to roaring at Brownshirt crowds than dealing with urbane, stable governments. If Chancellor Hitler was unskilled in the choice of his envoys, he was even more unfortunate in choosing the time for sending them...
...Michael and they fell in love. Before they had progressed very far she discovered that his possessiveness was developing into jealousy too much like her first husband's. She could not risk another tragedy: they broke up. On a month's business trip in Scandinavia Michael took stock of himself, discovered his jealousy was a mixture of vanity and inferiority, resigned himself to having lost Catherine for good. When he wrote her a friendly letter, not expecting to see her again, she gave him to his amazement another chance, suggested they run off next day and get married...
...idea that one reason it was not better appreciated was the fact that the public generally ignored the color and therefore had no knowledge of the real appearance of the work. He decided to make extensive sketches in color of modern buildings in Germany, Austria, Holland and Scandinavia...