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Awarded. To Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist and onetime publisher; and Carlos Saavedra Lamas. Argentine Foreign Minister: Nobel Peace Prizes for 1935 and 1936; in Oslo, Norway. Ailing in a Berlin hospital after spending three years in Nazi concentration camps, von Ossietzky declined to comment on his award, which infuriated Adolf Hitler...
Johan Hjort, of the University of Oslo, Marine Biology...
Norway. With Palestine, Malta and Egypt thus strongly dealt with last week, the next British move was to crack at Norway in the dispute over whales (TIME, Sept. 7). Britain's whaling fleet, which is normally manned by Norwegians, remained last week tied up in a fjord near Oslo. Both the Norwegian whalers' unions and the Norwegian Government maintained that British soapmakers, who own many of the whaling ships, want to kill whales at such a rate that the great mammals would soon be exterminated. London papers last week described the British Government as having decided to brandish...
...full-dress diplomatic whale dispute between London and Oslo has grown out of what is, in the opinion of Norwegians, a desire on the part of British firms to kill such an excessive number of whales each year that they will end by killing off entirely these great mammals and crippling one of Norway's chief industries. Norwegians feel sure that they know more about whales than any other people. They are left cold by the desk-decisions of British soap magnates such as Unilever Ltd. which own British whale-killing and blubber-boiling "factory ships" on which...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...