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Died. Heinrich ("Henry the Long," "Uncle Sahm") Sahm, 62, first (and tallest: 6 ft. 6 in.) president of the Danzig Senate, onetime Mayor of Berlin (he was removed for patronizing Jewish stores), German Minister to Norway; in Oslo, Norway...
...OSLO, Norway--An unidentified warship, seen limping southward under cover of a heavy smoke screen, was believed to have been crippled in a naval battle that shook the western coast of Norway for 10 hours today with the rumble of heavy shelling...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
Month ago, bristling with optimism about the chances of no war, Ham Fish sailed (as leader of the U. S. delegation of four Senators and 24 Representatives) for the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union at Oslo (TIME, Sept. 13, 1937). By the time he reached Berlin, he had to admit having talked with some people (including British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and French Premier Edouard Daladier) who thought there might be a war. "I myself," he said, "do not believe it, or my family would not be here." If invited to arbitrate the Danzig dispute, he said, he would...
...then he had a talk with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop about "fateful problems," from which he came away "very depressed." By the time he had reached Oslo, he was in a towering funk. "My impressions of Europe are terrifying. . . . Europe is drifting toward war. . . . America will go to war ... if the British Fleet is defeated. . . . I believe we can expect war at any moment. . . . August...