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...tight little kingdom with 25 years of peace behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week, in the 25th year of its Christian era, offered a study in sane, happy nationalism that was well expressed in a birthday book published for the occasion.* With the Oslo group of northern European powers beginning to loom as a rallying point for world democracy. King Christian's quiet Silver Jubilee was significant by its very insignificance...
Northern Entente? Until 1918 the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Denmark, Sweden-were neutral. Then, like Belgium, they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time...
Died. Wilhelm Henie. 65, Oslo fur dealer, father of Sonja Henie, world's greatest figure skater; of a bloodclot in the lung, following an abdominal operation; in Hollywood...
...Oslo is the capital of Norway and there is a placid affinity of minds among Netherlanders, Norwegians, Luxembourgers, Danes, Belgians, Swedes and Finns. These neighbors are so good and so unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
First business at hand for Premier van Zeeland this week was International. Representatives of the "Oslo Group" arrived for four days of conference and Reich Economic Minister Hjalmar Schacht was due from a "World Bank" meeting at Basle to urge more traffic in raw materials between Belgium and Germany...