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...vi elsker dette landet...
...R.A.F. gave the British new hope. As the exploits grew in number, everyone from hod carrier to princess followed the heroes. As King George VI last week presented brilliant Squadron Leader Roland Tuck the second bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross-the first time this honor had been bestowed-His Majesty said: "I will be able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used...
Fortunately for Russia, most of the friends she wanted were in London. Huddled there like a little League of Nations were the exiled governments of Czechoslovakia, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Yugoslavia. How close they huddled was evident when their kings, queens and ministers called on King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (see cut). Hat in hand, Russia's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Ivan M. Maisky, spent his week bustling from one to the other. By the week's end, thanks largely to Maisky, Russia...
Classic definition of the Western Hemisphere was a line drawn by Pope Alexander VI. confirmed in 1494 by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The line ran from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
...George VI last week put himself on short rations of cigarets-cutting down from 20-25 a day to 15-in order to share the hardships of his people, who now can get only a limited amount.* Last spring one of the country's most popular songs was The King is Still in London. A new number, The Day I Met His Majesty The King has been added to the regal canon...