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...battle had begun somewhere off upper Norway, beyond where the North Atlantic meets the Arctic Circle. As the convoy sailed around North Cape and along the coasts of the remote, mineral-rich territory called Lapland, dive-bombers and submarines kept up the attack. Berlin, reporting the last one near the entrance to Murmansk harbor, claimed a total bag of eight ships, including a 10,000-tonner loaded with tanks and ammunition. The British said that the entire convoy entered Murmansk, admitted some damage and deaths, claimed the probable destruction of three U-boats with depth charges...
...later gaunt King Haakon ordered the capitulation of what was left to him of Norway. With Crown Prince Olav and his Government he abandoned a fugitive existence in the fir and birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...planned the presentation of demands to Finland more far-reaching in character than those presented last autumn." Paris-Soir printed rumored Russian demands as telephoned from Stockholm: 1) the whole Karelian Isthmus, including Viipuri; 2) all territory northeast of Lake Laatokka, including Sortavala; 3) the northern part of Finnish Lapland, including Petsamo; 4) a naval base at Hanko, plus the whole Hanko peninsula. The demands were said to have been presented in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum. For that piece of reportage, no correspondents were permitted to telephone anything out of Stockholm for 24 hours...
...Michigan was only an incident in Mr. Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give it away?" He wrote a book about...
...Thousands of reindeer were driven southwest through Lapland, to be slaughtered for the Army...