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Then he made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television program, he proved himself the best campaigner yet on the newest communications medium to reach into the U.S. home. His big, squarecut Scandinavian face was etched handsomely on the screen; he was relaxed, direct and confident. He answered ably and fully every question two newsmen could throw...
There is still some red tape that has to be cut in order to make the trip. Except for the Scandinavian countries, Holland, and Switzerland, all the nations require visas, the prices of which range from nothing for the Belgian to $4.35 for the French. You can try getting into Germany by writing the State Department, but there doesn't seem to be any way of touring through Yugoslavia...
Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...
Finland yesterday decided to negotiate with Russia for a friendship and military pact--a step which some sources predict will bind the Scandinavian country with Soviet bloc. After two weeks of study, the Finnish cabinet decided to accept the Russian proposal for an alliance treaty, and suggested that the negotiations take place in Moscow...
Died. Peter de Rochegune Munch, 77, prewar pacifist, Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1929 to 1940; in Copenhagen. He visualized a Scandinavian "oasis of peace," signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in May 1939-ten months before the Nazi invasion of Denmark...