Scandinavian American. [volume], May 01, 1948, Image 1

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Borregaard Paper
Output Up in 1947
NEW YORK. (RNIS!—The an
nual report of Borregaard Inc.,
one of Norway's largest Wood
processing concerns. contains il
luminating data on production in
that field during 1947. Though
world demand held throughout the
year, with prices rising steadily.
output of the company’s cellulose
plants in Norway and Austria was
sharply reduced due to the timber
shortage, with the Norwegian fac
tory operating at 60'}? and the
Austrian plants at 207, of normal
capacity. Paper production, on the
other hand. has been normal, with
Borregaard’s output of high qual
ity paper establishing a new rec
ord. Production at the firm's
Swedish plants. though unham
pered by any lack of timber was
reduced by a power shortage due
to low water reserves. Sulphite
cellulose production for all plants
totalled 110,000 tons—an increase
of 14,000 tons over 1946. Sulphite
paper output reached 40,000 tons
(an increase of 1000 tons) and sul
phite alcohol production of 11,-
200,000 liters topped 1946 output
by a million liters. The company's
factories in Sarpsborg, Norway,
produced 53,500 tons of cellulose
(50% capacity) during the year.
For the first time since the war
a contract was signed with Japa
nese purchasers for delivery of
2,000 tons of silk cellulose.
Summer Course
In Swedish a'l'
”252k- .U-Eivcrsify
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — (l-3y
airmail )—Under the aegis of Folk
universitetet, one of Sweden's
many adult educational organiza
tions, 9. series of lectures in Eng
lish on “Aspects of Sweden To
day," will be given at Upsala Uni
versity. August 1-20. next. A sur
very far English-speaking people
of Swedish life and thought, insti
tutions, industries, social welfare,
cooperation. and education. the
course is under the presidency of
Professor Torgny T. Segerstedt. It
will have the following program:
This Land of Sweden; Social Wel
fare; Swedish Democracy; Culture,
and Sweden at work. It is open to
all and arranged by Upsalastuden
ternas Kursverksamhet, a univer
sity extension organization for
adult education. in cooperation
with The Swedish Institute for
Cultural Relations with Foreign
Countries and the United Students
Corps of Sweden. Application
blanks and full information about
the course may be obtained by
writing to Upsalastudenternas
Kursverksamhet, V. Agatan 22,
Upsala, Sweden.
Course on “Social Development
In Sweden" at Stockholm
The Swedish Institute and the
Cooperative Union and Wholesale
Society will arrange for English
speaking people a course on "So
cial Developments in Sweden" at
Jacobsberg's People‘s College, in
the outskirts of Stockholm. Sep
tember 2-14. Although the course
is a separate. independent unit.
it may be taken as a continuation
and a more detailed extension of
the course at Upsala University.
Besides lectures and discussions.
a number of excursions and dem
onstrations will be held. The price,
including board, lodging, and ex
cursions, will be one hundred
kroner. Applications, stating name,
occupation. sex, age, and perman
ent address of applicant should be
forwarded to the Swedish Insti
tute. Kungsgatan 34. Stockholm,
which will also supply additional
information about the course upon
request.
Churchill To Norway
NEW YORK.-~It has been con
firmed that Winston Churclkill has
accepted King Hnakon‘s inv tation
to visit Norway during the month
of May. It is expected that the
{ox-mer British Prime Minister will
arrive in 0310 on or about May
12th where he will be the King's
guest at the Royal Palace in Oslo
While in Norway. Mr. Churchill
will be awarded an honorary 'de
me by Oslo University.
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“SOANDINAVIA: Working Model For Democracy”
The American-Scandinavian
Foundation Aids 12 Students
Text of an address delivered at the first session of the
NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE FORUM FOR HIGH
SCHOOLS at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
By LITHGOW OSBORNE
President, American-Scandinavian Foundation
It is the task—the very pleasant task—of the American-
Scandinavian Foundation to make the bridge of personal
understanding between the Scandinavian countries and this
country both well-traveled and easily traveled. I hope that
sometime many of you will be
come the victims of our plots to
export to Scandinavia, temporar
ily, as many young Americans as
possible; and to import as many
young Scandinavians as possible.
I shall envy you your first ex
periences of a Scandinavian coun
try: for I still remember my first
such experiences vividly and with
excitement. In my student years
I was lucky enough to travel
fairly widely. I had been in Eng
land. in Italy and Germany, in
Switzerland and the Low Coun
tries before I ever came to Scan
dinavia. I had seen much of in
terest. much to admire. But I nev
er quite felt at home. I had not
been long in Denmark before I
found myself thinking, almost un
consciously: “This is it. I almost
belong here. This is the nearest
thing to home that an American
Swedish-American Editor Travels
As Guest 0f Swedish Government
Harry Fabbc. editor of the
Swedish language weekly “Svens-l
kn Pocten" in Seattle, Wash, with
Mrs. Fnbbe sailed for Sweden]
aboard the Swedish American
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAY, 1948
can find outside the borders of U.
S. A." I found later that Sweden
and Norway affected me similarly.
I have seen very much the same
thing happen to nearly all Ameri
cans of my acquaintance who have
come to know the Scandinavian
countries.
Have Differ-em Characteristics
Not that I would imply that the
Scandinavian peoples and the
Scandinavian countries are all
alike. Far from it! There is a
common approach to many cur
rent problems; there are some
striking similarities; there is a re
mote raci'al kinship; yet to lump
them together is about as discern
ing as to lump together Italians.
French and Spaniards as Latins.
Norwegians, Danes and Swedes
differ from each other at least as
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imur “\zrlpslmlm" last week. Mr,
Fabbe who is traveling as a guest
of the Swedish Foreign Office on a
tour of Sweden will spend three
months ln the country 0! his birth.
ENVOY SAYS DENMARK HOPES
TO HELP BOTH EAST AND WEST
COPENHAGEN — D e n m a r k
will attempt to steer a middle
course of cooperation and sympa
thy between “East and West" ac
cording to Gustav Rasmussen, the
Danish Foreign Minister, who ad
dressed the recent Foreign Press
Annual Banquet here.
Denmark “cannot see that it
should be impossible for nations of
different ideologies and forms of
government to live their lives in
peace beside each other, and to
cooperate in economic. cultural.
and political questions," Mr. Ras
mussen stated.
“This has previously been so.I
and we do not give up the hopef
that it will be so again." 1
The Foreign Minister emphasiz-L
ed the historic ties of Denmarka
with the western nations, and also '
the great debt owed by the Danish I
people to the Soviet Union for its'
part in liberating Denmark. I
Mr. Rasmussen denied that Am»;
NORWAY PREPAREDNESS
GRANT IS APPORTIONED
NEW YORK. (RNIS)—Disposi
tion of the 100,000,000 Kr. (520,--
000.000) extraordinary defense ap
propriation passed by the Norwe
gian Parliament on March 16th
(See Norway Digest No. 117) has
been announced by the Norwegian
Government. Of the total sum to
be expended during 1948. 81.0000.-
000Kr. are ear-marked for military
defenses. 10,000.000 Kr. for civil
ian defense. 8.000.000 Kr. for the
police, and 1,000,000 Kr. for stor
age expenses.
The military grant will include
8,000,000 Kr. for the extension of
service for conscript personnel.
8.000.000 Kr. for -calling up re
cruits not covered under the orig—
inal budget, 3.000.000 Kr. for of
ficers' training. 10,000,000 Kr. for
mobilization and preparedness ma-
Daughters of Norway
Convention In Seattle
I The Grand Lodge Daughters of
Norway on the Pacific Coast. will
‘hold their convention in Seattle.
June 9. 10. 11 and 12.
Headquarters will be The New
W'ashington Hotel. Delegates are
expected from San Franusco and
Oakland, Calif., Astoria. Oregon.
Tacoma. Seatle. Everett. Silvana.
\Vash.. Bute. Montana and Ket
chlkan and Peteraburg. Alaska.
Host for the convention are
"Breldablik" Lodge in Ballard with
Mrs. A. Bjerkeaeth as president
and chairman of the Convention
committee.
11112 Grand Lodge Daughters of
Norway has approximately 1800
members. Mrs. A. Gorud. Seattle
is the Grmd Lodge Presadent and
Mrs. A. Bjerkeaeth the Grand
Lodge Secretary.
;erican help through the Marshall
iPlan will be conditioned by politi
‘ical and military demands. "Den
gmark expects powerful help from
jthe Marshall Plan for the rebuild
i ing and mutual cooperation of Eu
;rope," the Foreign Minister said.
' Referring again to Russia. Mr.
|Rasmussen stated that the Dan
lish people have given their "mod-
Eest subscriptions to the suffering.
ifor we have the deepest sympathy
[for them, and for the enormous
flosses suffered by the Soviet peo
fple in the war against Hitler Ger
‘ many."
‘ In conclusion, the Minister as
.serted that cooperation in Europe.
iwith the help given by the United
istates of America. will benefit
:Denmark and the other northern
1countries. Also benefited will be
iboth eastern and western Europe.
[“Whose assistance in the future
cannot be left. out. if our mutual
[hope for a. better Europe is to be
{come a realty."
neuvers, 2.000.000 Kr. for mobiliz
ation and training of enlisted com
missioned and non-commissioned
officers. 3.000.000 Kr. for special
outfitting of naval vessels. 3.000.-
000 Kr. for setting up special air
force units. 27,000,000 Kr. for ma
terial procurement. 12.000.000 Kr.
for buildings and preparatory la
bor. 3.000.000 Kr. for sea and land
security. 300.000 Kr. for grants
to local rifle clubs. and 1,200.00
Kr. for sundries.
All conscripts eligible for serv
ice during the coming budget year
will serve for a full 12 months. ac
cording to the proposal. and a por
tion of Brigade No. 482. recently
returned from occupation service
in Germany. will be called up for
recruit service from the beginning
of May.
The physics and chemistry de
partments of the Norwegian Dc~
tense Research Institute are now
established in twa permanent 3
story buildings near Lillestrom.
according to latest Oslo reports.
Projects include the production of
radio active materials. the invcs
tigation of biological and gas war
media. and experiments with new
fuels, high explosives and rockets.
Charges Dropped
Against Mrs' Quisling
! NEW YORK v A Nonwgian
‘grmd jury has dropped charges
“that Mrs. Maria Quisling, wn‘o
of the late Vidkun Quisling. whn
'was executed by the Norwegian
authorities in 1945, Though Mrs.
Quialing was listed in the mom
berahip files of her husband's po
litical pu-ty, jurors were forced
to recognize her plea that she had
been registered by her hulbtnd.
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