Word: norwegian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homecoming. Returning to Germany to cover the Nürnberg trials as a newspaperman, moved on to Berlin as press attache of the Norwegian military mission. Surveying divided Berlin, he decided: "It is better to be the only democrat in Germany, where democracy is unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin...
...Exile. Changing his name to Willy Brandt and posing with fake Norwegian papers as a "student," he slipped back into Germany in 1936, worked with the anti-Nazi underground for five months before returning to Norway. Studied history at the University of Oslo, went to Spain during the Civil War as a correspondent for Scandinavian newspapers and representative of Norwegian relief...
World War II. When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, friends got Willy, by now a Norwegian citizen, into a Norwegian soldier's uniform, and although he spent five weeks in a P.W. camp, the Nazis never spotted the disguise. Released, he slipped across to Sweden, there wrote anti-Nazi propaganda until...
...with flowers, her eyes filled with tears. Then came his sister, the burgomaster, the scores of well-wishers from all over the bustling (pop. 14,000) city of Huy, Belgium. At first, the slender, 48-year-old Dominican priest could scarcely believe the news: the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had just awarded him the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize. "I'm too young." Father Georges Pire protested. But an hour and a half later, he sent off his acceptance: "Say thank you to Norway, whose heart has replied so splendidly to mine...
...will not have to worry about Tom Baskett, the Tigers' center forward, who tied for the League lead in scoring last year, as he suffered a muscle pull this week and will not be able to start today. Bob Hicks, Princeton's leading scorer and outside left, along with Norwegian Erling Pytte, are expected to carry the brunt of their team's offense...