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...Axel Gorm Andersen, who lives in Woodside, L. I., is five. Last spring, when the Nazis invaded Norway, little Axel found himself in Trondheim, 4,000 miles from home. Mrs. Andersen had taken Axel to show him to his great-aunt and left him there for a visit, never dreaming that the Nazi war machine would sweep that far north...
There was nothing for Axel to do but stare, big-eyed, at the Nazi war machine and wait. In the U. S., Father & Mother Andersen spent four months sending frantic wires to Washington, asking for help. They appealed at last to the International Red Cross in Geneva...
Next thing Axel knew, he was soaring south across Germany, tagged and addressed to Mr. Axel Andersen in the U. S. A Lufthansa plane landed him in Lisbon. The Clipper was so full of diplomats that even Axel couldn't be squeezed in, so he was put aboard the American Export liner Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel...
When the Siboney ran into a storm, most of the passengers got sick and went below. Someone missed Axel and started a feverish hunt for him. He was found sitting in one of the lifeboats, dangling his legs over the side and whooping every time the ship rolled...
...Conrad's Victory (first made in 1919), Paramount had the vitals of a really scary thriller. The dreadful days on the little island of Samburan when creepy Mr. Jones and his two frightening assistants were looking for some swag can curl the hair of the most composed reader. Axel Heyst, mustachioed philosopher who lives in seclusion on the island with his Chinese servant, has heroic proportions. The howling storm which engulfs the last stages of the drama is great theatre. Alma, the helpless, buffeted pianist who escapes with Heyst to the peace of Samburan from oppression in an itinerant...