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...pacts with Herr Hitler are not finding a very good market at the present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts. Obviously, all four would have liked to reply to Germany in unison: "Thank you, Herr Hitler, but we don't want any pacts...
Last week 8,000 stolid Scandinavian-Americans converged in cars and busses on the little hilltop college town of Northfield, Minn. Only the first 4,000 jammed their way into the red brick gymnasium of St. Olaf Lutheran College. The rest sprawled on the surrounding lawns. What drew all these people to St. Olaf's gymnasium was a two-day festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory...
...born man-of-the-world hobnobbing with distinguished visitors. He drove down to the Poughkeepsie lumber yard where the Potomac docks when it is there, got out of his car to handshake handsome Crown Prince Olav & Crown Princess Martha of Norway. Mr. Roosevelt, though fluent in French, speaks no Scandinavian tongues, but he did not need to. The royal Norwegians speak Mayfair English...
Actually left in the League are none but France and Britain (and some of their proteges), Russia and small fry nations: the Scandinavian countries, 13 minor European countries, ten Latin American countries, Liberia, Turkey, the unconquered tag-end of China, the defunct Republic of Spain, and the late Kingdom of Ethiopia (as represented by Haile Selassie). This League of leftovers represents only one of Europe's two clattering armed camps, and no altercation was ever settled by having only one side sit down and talk things over...
...more fellowships of $1000 each will be awarded for graduate study next summer in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Recipients of the fellowships must be born in the United States and should have knowledge of at least one foreign language...