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...University of California's Waldemar Christian Westergaard, 67, authority on Scandinavian history (Denmark and Slesvig, 1848-1864; The First Triple Alliance). Plump, pleasant Professor Westergaard long ago gave up classroom seminars ("hard seats don't mean hard heads"), preferred to teach in his own library, smoking a four-foot-long Danish pipe...
Last winter, it came close. New York City's Board of Higher Education was ready to name Bryn J. Hovde, historian (The Scandinavian Countries), housing expert and head of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, to the $15,000-a-year job. But some Queens residents had a candidate of their own: Acting President Margaret V. Kiely. Others, including Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Tablet, attacked Hovde because he had been critical of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had attended the Moscow-sponsored World Congress of Intellectuals in Breslau last summer (where...
...different ways and places TIME filtered through to the Continent. Clandestine underground publications kept Occupied France supplied with TIME material which arrived via Portugal. By 1944 we were printing a Scandinavian edition behind the German blockade in neutral Stockholm from film (of TIME's pages) flown from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through...
...Voiced a final "No" to the suggested Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...Lange, this was somewhat confusing. Fortnight before, the U.S. had in effect torpedoed the efforts of Sweden to get Norway and Denmark to join in a neutral Scandinavian bloc, which would have no ties to the Atlantic pact. It had been Sweden's hope that the U.S. would arm such a bloc. But the U.S. replied that its arms would go first to the nations joining up in the Atlantic pact...