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Last week blunter talk about Communists came out of Scandinavia than any yet heard from a government next door to Russia. The talker was Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, long and lank like the King whose Prime Minister he is. Gerhardsen had left school at 16 to be a road mender. Then he became a trade union organizer. When the Germans landed in Norway and ousted him as mayor of Oslo, he went back to mending roads, clad in overalls. At night, after his road work, he organized the labor union section of the Norwegian underground. Later he spent several...
Evelyn Waugh, grand old man of Britain's bright young men, reported back (in This Week magazine) after a look at Scandinavia. He found the Danes "the most exhilarating people in Europe. . . ." On the Swedes: "They believe very firmly in their own sanity." The sight of Norwegian statuary bearing no evidence of "any intellectual process or spiritual aspirations" moved him to wonder "what hope there was for the people who had made...
...Covering Scandinavia and Holland in two months' time, and embracing a program of concerts in old churches and outdoor folkparks, the trip will be made strictly as a contribution to international relations. Letters from the countries involved give every indication the Club will be welcomed heartily...
...Hammerstein, a professional interior decorator ("We didn't get cute"). There he rises at about 7:30 and gets a massage by Peter Moen, a bald, powerful Norwegian, without whom he refuses to go anywhere (partly because Peter is homesick, Hammerstein has decided to take a trip to Scandinavia next month...
Those natural allies, said Lippmann, "are the nations of the Atlantic community . . . the British Commonwealth, the Latin states on both sides of the Atlantic, the Low Countries and Switzerland, Scandinavia...