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...composite name of his program gets it off to a good start. But our high hopes are not completely fulfilled. Sonja Henie's picture, as per usual, consists of fancy skating and Scandinavian smiles--with a little plot thrown in for good measure. Ray Milland and Bob Cummings, in the roles of amorous newspaper correspondents, disappoint their city editors, but please the audience. And the broad, powdery expanse of Swiss Alps is a welcome sight after "Harvard Square's rutted slush...
Finland, like the Scandinavian nations, is mostly Lutheran. Lately Archbishop Erkki Kaila, head of beleaguered Finland's National Church, sent a stout S O S to Christendom: "In the name of the Finnish Christendom, I ... dare to turn to you to ask for spiritual and material support for my people and its Church now exposed to persecution. . . . We have full confidence that the Christian Churches will not leave us to fight out this struggle alone. God have mercy...
...feel free to attack the Balkans. In reverse, if Norway and Sweden are drawn into war with Russia, thereby cutting off Germany's much-needed supplies, Germany might feel forced to make a new attack in the west -especially if Great Britain and France were allied with the Scandinavian countries. It was by no means certain that any of the neutrals would be sucked into the war. But last week's crisis showed that it was possible for World War II to spread over more of Europe than World War I ever reached...
...next concert in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Sanders Theatre series will come on Thursday evening. Nikolai Malko, a Russian who has been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope...
Germany has lost Italy and gained no new allies. Britain cemented friendship with Rumania and Turkey. The Scandinavian democracies, maintaining a poker-faced neutrality, did their best to hide their patent sympathies. A friendly U. S. repealed its arms embargo. Lord Halifax's diplomatic machine is in fine fettle...