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They need not have explained. His Royal Scandinavian Highness understood very well. First, he knew, there was race. Gustaf Adolf knew perfectly the feeling of the blond north countrymen for the Slavs: his great namesake, Gustavus Adolphus, had fought the Muscovites at Great Novgorod, and Charles XII nearly crushed the Russian Peter called Great. The hatred was old in the blood...
...brought suit for $12,822.23. She said he signed a promissory note for that sum the day she sued for divorce last December. ∙∙ Brooklyn-born Sigrid Gurie (Algiers, Marco Polo) applied for U.S. citizenship, but not as a gag. The cinemactress Sam Goldwyn acclaimed as a genuine Scandinavian importation (like Garbo) had lost her citizenship when her parents took her back to their former home in Norway. ∙∙ Billy Rose is taking time out from flesh spectacles, putting his aquacade profits behind a triangle play by Clifford Odets. ∙∙ Press-Agentry of the Week: In Hollywood...
...Ball had just one week to tell his constituents what he thought about the war, before heading back to Washington. He started his campaign on July 3 at Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...
Shortly before Hitler attacked Poland, Military Expert Reynolds prophesied flatly: "Of course there'll be no war." Day before the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway, he declared that the Scandinavian countries were going to keep...
...Conquered. Economist Brandt believes that Germans use food to control civilians in German-occupied Europe as they do at home, but that the weapon does not work so efficiently because the machinery is new. To lure skilled workmen to German factories, rations in Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian, French manufacturing centres are cut, increased in German towns. The amount of food that reaches the public is determined, not by the supply, but according to Nazi strategy. The British blockade, he believes, can not halt the Nazi war machine. He concludes that food will not win the war. "The Nazi machine will...