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Some Swedes dreamed of organizing an atomic cooperative among the Scandinavian countries. Sweden had uranium. Norway had heavy water and abundant electric energy. Denmark had Nobel Prizewinner Nils Bohr, one of the greatest living atom experts. Bohr had worked with the Manhattan Project, and no doubt knew many of its secrets. Swedish scientists stated emphatically that they were not interested in atomic bombs. Besides advancing pure science, they were aiming at industrial, technical, and medical uses of atomic energy...
...Swedish colleagues. Sweden, they mused last week, might be a fine place to work. Some of them thought that refugee scientists from Axis countries, who played so important a part in the Manhattan Project, might move on to Sweden in search of professional freedom. If they did, the little Scandinavian country might become an important factor in the world's atomic affairs...
Safely in Stockholm, Earl Browder's frozen tongue thawed. To Scandinavian correspondents he confided that he was en route to Moscow to "study political life...
...Delegates representing the last of the Progressives met in a frame hall at Portage, Wis., to disband the party, return to the G.O.P. Young Bob was facing another election-and he could win only as a Republican. There were still men who wanted to go defiantly on. Said Scandinavian-born Farmer Ole Lund: "When we discard a piece of machinery on the farm we think twice before we hitch on to it again." But there was no choice. The Democrats could offer no hope of victory. Quietly the delegates voted to join up with the Republicans, and went home...
...meagre plot opens in a Scandinavian version of North Conway. From there it follows the amorous adventures of beautiful Princess Martha through Victorian salon, Royal Palace, and Civic Opera house, as she decides between her secret love from the snow country and her handsome blue-blooded husband...