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Show ECHOES U. S. and the War HANDLING I). S. diplomatic problems prob-lems in Norway is Mrs. J. Borden Harriman. minister to that country the past three years and the second woman envoy in U. S. history. It was she who broke through the barrier bar-rier of silence with the first official i news that war had come to Norway. A British army officer's daughter. ; she married a wealthy U. S. banker who died in 1914. A RISE in U. S. pork prices was . forecast since Great Britain's supply source in Denmark has been cut off. Mainly, however, department of agriculture oflcials predicted the Nazi occupation would have little immediate effect upon farm exports. THE STATE department worried over the plight of 3.300 Americans in Scandinavia, all of whom were reported safe. ONXY A SMALL part of the $35-000.000 $35-000.000 in U. S. credits extended to Denmark. Norway and Sweden by the Export-import bank have been used, according to Warren Lee Pier-son, Pier-son, president of the bank. The Norwegians Nor-wegians had planned to buy mostly wheat, lard, cotton thread for fish nets and some other agricultural products. Most of Denmark's an-: an-: ticipaied purchases were machinery i and manufactured goods. |