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...intransigent isolationism was no handicap in the German and Scandinavian areas of Minnesota, where isolationism is still a potent political force. Instead of trying to whitewash his record on foreign affairs, he made no bones of the fact that he and North Dakota's Bill Langer had cast the only votes in the Senate against U.N. Rural voters nodded approval...
Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
...International Labor Office was meeting in an effort to set a minimum worldwide seamen's wage. But the minimum would not be anything like U.S. wages.* Chile shipowners pay their crews only $18 a month. Canadians pay $90. The rest of the world ranges in between. Scandinavian countries pay $80. Britain, which would give the U.S. the hottest competition, pays...
...lines using some 2,400 War Shipping Administration bottoms,* declared flatly that the operators could not pay. The demands, said he, would raise costs to such an exaggerated point that the U.S. Merchant Marine could not compete with foreign shipping -particularly that of Britain and the Scandinavian countries...
There are, of course, a few exceptions to the general picture. Starting this summer, Switzerland is welcoming a considerable number of American students, and a small number are going to the Scandinavian countries: likewise, it is possible that the French universities will recover more quickly than expected and be able to take some Americans by next fall...