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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls of Oslo's 13th Century Akershus Fortress reverberated with laughter and deep-throated Scandinavian singing. The guests -97 ministers, generals, diplomats and politicians of Sweden, Denmark and Norway-toasted each other and their countries. Gay as any was the host, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange. Yet in his pocket crackled a crisp piece of paper, a note from Soviet Russia. The Soviet ambassador had delivered it just as Lange was leaving for the state dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: No Middle Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...curious to find mention of martyrdom retained in the ritual creating a cardinal. The church's list of martyrs contains scores of bishops, but only one cardinal.* When the office evolved (probably in the 5th Century), the cardinals were in charge of important churches in and around Rome. Yet while there was evil in the world, there would be danger, even at the center of Christendom. The cardinals were reminded that they as well as those who went among the infidel were expected to be faithful unto death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY-: Their Tongues Cut Off | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Russia's offer of a non-aggression pact must have given Lange pause, for Russia's road of aggression against half a dozen small states was strewn with broken non-aggression pacts (just as Hitler's road had been). Yet Lange did not cancel his trip; instead, he pocketed the note, snapped that he would "study it and reply in due course," and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: No Middle Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...said; the few incidents in which the camera allowed her to act were marred for this observer by recognition of some familiar acting tricks which she has used too repeatedly to be now excusable. My firm belief that Miss Bergman is a fine actress was shaken but not yet shattered. Since she is a partial producer of this monstrous epic, however, her taste and judgment are surely suspect...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

Rehearsals will not begin for another two or three weeks, Miller stated, since several parts have still not yet been filled. Mail orders for tickets under the old schedule are being returned but the HDC is accepting applications for the revised dates at its Holyoke st. office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woolley Will Open in HDC Play April 13 | 2/12/1949 | See Source »

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