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...safer regions, has completed plans for opening her dikes to flood a large part of the country. In the north countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, not only have there been increased expenditures for arms, but the four small nations have long been banded together as the Oslo Powers to present a united front to the world in general and to aggressors in particular. The idea was that where the voice of one small nation might not carry far, the voice of four would...
Last week in Stockholm the Foreign Ministers of the Oslo Powers met in an extraordinary conference singularly unlike those usually held twice a year to discuss routine matters. Present were Juho Eljas Erkko of Finland; Richard Sandler of Sweden; Halvdan Koht of Norway and Peter Munch of Denmark. Their agenda: to decide what answer to make to Herr Hitler's offer of non-aggression pacts...
...four Oslo Powers do not have the same German problem. Norway, Sweden and Finland have some protection against Germany in the Baltic Sea. Denmark has a common 42-mile border with the Nazis. Furthermore, in the 1,500-square-mile province of North Schleswig, Denmark owns territory that, from 1864 to 1918, belonged to Germany. Several times during the last few years the German press has indicated that some day North Schleswig would be returned to the Reich. While Britain indicated last month that she would fight if Denmark were invaded, the Danes know that the German Army could probably...
...vary from open-mouthed admiration of technical flash and display which considers music a medium for vocal and instrumental acrobatics, to the most discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician...
...keep the world's legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...