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...first of Europe's kings to be pushed out of his country by the Nazis was the first to come back. In London Norway's Haakon VII waited for a symbolic date before following Premier Johan Nygaardsvold and the members of the Norwegian Government in Exile who returned to Oslo last week. The homing officials were somewhat uncertain about the changes in Norway's political climate during their absence. But seldom has a returning Government in Exile been so warmly welcomed. Hundreds of fjordside villagers went out in small boats to meet the liner which brought Nygaardsvold...
...London, King Christian's brother, Haakon VII of Norway, was likewise preparing to return to his throne in Oslo. Crown Prince Olav and three members of the Norwegian Government in Exile had already returned to Oslo last week on a British cruiser. As he drove through the capital in an open car, thousands of jubilant Norwegians shouted "Hiya, Olav." In London the rest of the royal family had assembled. While they waited, exiled Norwegians spent their time (and remaining ration coupons) on a last big buying binge...
Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...
...Rights. In Largs, Scotland, Norway's King Haakon VII, in a traditional ceremony, became an honorary citizen of the town, while an inquisitive black-&-white cat, exercising its traditional right, sat and looked...
...Filthy. From the European theater another two-front observer gave his opinion. Major General J. Lawton ("Joe Lightning") Collins fought in Guadalcanal and New Georgia, now commands the VII Corps on the Western Front. In a recent interview in Yank...