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Representatives from travel agencies of the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and France, and speakers on Yugoslavia and Italy spoke briefly in the first part of the program. They set up exhibit booths in Memorial Hall where they provided special information later...
Despite bitter opposition from the U.S., Britain, Scandinavian countries, The Netherlands and others, the second convention-with all its booby trap provisions for the protection of national prestige and the promotion of peace-was passed by a special U.N. committee. (The U.S. plan was approved by the General Assembly, but then shelved, with almost no chance of ever being ratified.) The dangerously restrictive convention is likely to be okayed finally at the fall session of the General Assembly and sent to the U.N. members for ratification, the final step...
...Quadrupled her national production, climbing from a lowly par with Norway and Sweden to a point where she nearly triples the output of these Scandinavian countries and rivals that of France...
Last week the New York Times announced that the reports of Dr. Hertz's death were false. Scandinavian and West German scientists, said the Times, have established contact with 64-year-old Physicist Hertz. They have letters postmarked Moscow, have seen pictures in which their old friend looks thinner but healthy...
Ilona Karmel has written the longest piece, another installment of her reminiscences of Europe, which are soon to be published as a novel called "Cobbler's Paradise." In this one, we find little Stephania in a hospital in some unspecified part of Scandinavia, shooting the breeze with her Scandinavian comrades and reminiscing over the death of her father at the hands of the Nazis. There are two strands running through the chapter--a rather objectivized analysis of the Jewish conception of death, and a highly subjective narration of the guilt feelings which generally accompany the premature death of a close...