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...Geneva meeting of the 34 member nations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the U.S. came under attack last week. Subject: the U.S. restrictions on dairy products from Denmark and other countries. "We feel,"said Denmark's Gunnar Seidenfaden, "that a leading trading nation like the U.S. has special responsibilities to cooperate in the general effort." With the backing of Australia, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy and Canada, GATT passed a Danish resolution affirming the right of other nations to take retaliatory action against the U.S. so long as American import restrictions remain in effect...
...newspaperman, Erik Seidenfaden, 30-year-old editor on Copenhagen's rich, conservative Politiken, son of a Copenhagen police commissioner, took off from a Danish airport in a chartered plane and turned his nose northward over the grey waters of the Kattegat toward Norway. Reporter Seidenfaden, like many another Dane, was curious about a long line of Nazi warships, mine sweepers, transports which had been steaming slowly through the Great Belt...
...risky flight to take, for a fleet at sea in wartime would be glad to have its escort planes shoot down any air snooper. But perhaps, flying in the distance, Seidenfaden's plane was taken for one of the escort. He overtook the Nazi vanguard near the Norwegian coast, swooped down in time to see the first units of the Nazi fleet moving into Oslo Fjord...
Journalist Seidenfaden used his head. He landed in Oslo, headed for the nearest wireless office, and put his news on the air. A few hours later he escaped to Stockholm. His dispatch was the first definite information that the German fleet was moving on Norway. Luck, enterprise and brains, the three ingredients of newspaper beats, last week had given Erik Seidenfaden the first beat of the new war in the north. Mysterious Invasion...
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