Word: scandinavianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the regime of Mueller's gentle efficiency. Schoenhof's has become one of the two big distributors of new foreign literature in this country, as well as a small-scale publisher of German books by immigrant authors. Besides dealing in such standard items as Russian-German dictionaries and Scandinavian children's books, Mueller indulges one of his great loves by selling fine art prints on the side. The Renoirs and Pienssos add a supreme touch of individuality to the paper-covered French novels in the disorded front windows. But, evidently, love for European culture may conceivably...
...identical customs duties for goods moving among themselves. The five-year goal: full economic union, with no internal customs barriers, with identical taxes, labor laws, social legislation. If economic union works, political union would be much less difficult. Belgians and Dutch think that later France may join them, that Scandinavian countries may cooperate closely...
...Arctic America has two species of lemming, similar to the Scandinavian but not so addicted to mass suicide by drowning, because their travel is mainly overland...
Most interesting and starting of the articles is a factual report by two Scandinavian student visitors to Budapest, of conditions among those trying to get a college education. Leaving out graphs and generalizations, the report has passages such as, "The students often live 10-16 together in a room, with broken windows, no heat, poor light. In one college we saw a girl student lying ill with fever in a dank room where the temperature was only 2 degrees...
...almost daily. (Sample: "Please do something about this woman, who before and during the war was not on our team. . . . Norway doesn't want her, which is one very good reason for the United States not to take her.") In Seattle, which has the second largest Scandinavian population in the U.S., Impresario Cecilia Schultz said, "I positively refused to ... present her in concert here, because I have a deep-rooted allegiance for the American principles that this woman has ignored...