C . J . Hambro Carl Joachim " C . J . " Hambro ( 5 January 1885 – 15 December 1964 ) was a Norwegian journalist , author and leading politician representing the Conservative Party . A ten - term member of the Parliament of Norway , Hambro served as President of the Parliament for twenty of his thirty - eight years in the legislature . He was actively engaged in international affairs , including work with the League of Nations ( 1939 – 40 ) , delegate to the UN General Assembly ( 1945 – 1956 ) and member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee ( 1940 – 1963 ) . Personal life . Carl Joachim Hambro ' s lineage can be traced back to Rendsburg in the 1720s . The family was Jewish . The family member Calmer Joachim Hambro ( 1747 – 1806 ) relocated to Copenhagen in the late 18th century , and became a businessman . One of his sons , Joseph Hambro , moved on to London and founded Hambros Bank with his son Carl Joachim Hambro . Another son ( and Joseph ' s brother ) Edvard Isaach Hambro ( 1782 – 1865 ) moved to Bergen , Norway where he became a merchant in the early 19th century . Edvard Isaach Hambro fathered Carl Joachim Hambro ( 1813 – 1873 ) , who in turn fathered the school manager Edvard Isak Hambro ( 1847 – 1909 ) . C . J . Hambro was born in Bergen as a son of Edvard Isak Hambro and Nicoline Christine Harbitz ( 1861 – 1926 , later known as Nico Hambro ) . He had three sisters , among them the educator Elise Hambro . He was a distant descendant of Johan Randulf Bull , and thereby a first cousin of Edvard Bull , Sr . , Johan Peter Bull and Francis Bull . From June 1910 , C . J . Hambro was married to priest ' s daughter Gudrun " Dudu " Grieg ( 1881 – 1943 ) . They had the sons Edvard Hambro , Vilhelm Cato Grieg Hambro , Carl Joachim Hambro and Johan Randulf Bull Hambro ; all born between 1911 and 1915 . Through Edvard , he was also a grandfather of Christian Hambro . Three years after his wife died , in February 1946 , C . J . Hambro married actress Gyda Christensen ( 1872 – 1964 ) whom he had befriended in 1918 . Early career . Hambro attended the middle school and high school his father had founded in Bergen . He took the examen artium in 1902 , and enrolled in philology studies at the Royal Frederick University . While studying , he took many excursions , working as translator , literary critic , part - time teacher and even participant on the research vessel " Michael Sars " . He was also a journalist in " Morgenbladet " , from 1903 to 1907 . He finally received his cand . mag . degree in 1907 . He was involved in the Norwegian Students ' Society , which he chaired in 1908 , 1909 and in the autumn of 1911 . He chaired the Conservative Students ' Association in 1908 , 1910 and 1911 , and was also vice chairman of " Filologisk Forening " in 1904 . From 1910 to 1913 he was the secretary of the Norse Federation , and edited its periodical from 1911 to 1916 . He was also involved in association football , chairing the club Akademisk FK and being vice chairman ( in 1904 ) of the fledgling Football Association of Norway . After graduating from the university , he was a teacher at Kristiania Commerce School ( 1907 ) and Vestheim School ( 1908 – 1912 ) . In 1913 he became chief editor of the conservative newspaper " Morgenbladet " , a post he held until 1919 . He then focused on pursuing a political career , having been elected in the autumn of 1918 . He returned to the press as editor of the magazine " Ukens Revy " from 1921 to 1929 . " Ukens Revy " had been distinctively pro - German and anti - British during the First World War . During the war , Hambro got entangled in British affairs . In January 1917 , the United Kingdom had ceased its coal exports to Norway . During the negotiations between Knudsen ' s Cabinet ' s representatives and the British legation in Kristiania , Hambro wrote an editorial in " Morgenbladet " which suggested expulsion of the British diplomats if Norwegian needs were not met . British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour met with the Norwegian ambassador in the UK , and demanded that Knudsen ' s Cabinet either deplore " Morgenbladet " < nowiki > ' < / nowiki > s statements or prosecute Hambro legally . Hambro ' s actions were defended by the Norwegian parliamentary opposition , including the Conservative Party . After some rounds of talks and negotitations , the whole case blew over . In the first phase of the First World War , Hambro had campaigned restlessly against Knudsen ' s Cabinet which he perceived as too weak to lead the country through a war . Hambro and " Morgenbladet " was joined in this endeavor by " Tidens Tegn " and to an extent " Aftenposten " . Prime Minister Gunnar Knudsen summoned a sitdown of himself and the three newspaper ' s editors , where he tried to calm their attacks . " The attempt failed completely " , notes historian Hans Fredrik Dahl . Hambro also marked himself as a critic of socialism . He reacted strongly against the antimilitaristic policies of the socialists in Norway , and called for reactions against those who spread such " contamination " in print . In 1918 , in the wake of the Russian Revolution , Hambro suggested that a the revolutionary socialist press be met with harsher regulations . He wrote in " Morgenbladet " : " Perhaps our authorities should be more attentive towards the socially subversive agitation long practiced by our socialist leaders in writing and speech " . On the other hand , he also criticized cases of actual censorship directed towards the workers ' movement , among others during the secret military expedition to quell calamities in Rjukan in May 1914 . He chaired the boards of the Conservative Press Association from 1913 to 1920 , " Ukens Revy " from 1919 to 1929 , the Norwegian News Agency from 1920 to 1946 ( vice chairman 1918 to 1920 ) , and the Norse Federation from 1923 to 1946 ( board member 1913 to 1915 , vice chairman 1915 to 1923 ) . He was the vice chairman of Det Nye Teater from 1928 to 1932 , a board member of " Morgenbladet " from 1921 to 1933 as well as of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture . He was a supervisory council member of Nationaltheatret . Political career . Hambro had settled in Kristiania ( Oslo ) , and in 1908 he became a board member of the Conservative Party there . He was selected as a member of Kristiania ' s school board in 1913 . In 1921 he advanced to chairman , a post he held until 1923 . In the Norwegian parliamentary election , 1918 he stood on the Conservative Party ballot in Uranienborg and was elected to the Parliament of Norway in that single - member constituency . He was nominated as the party ' s candidate in Uranienborg as a compromise candidate between the agrarian - conservative wing of Jens Bratlie and the liberal wing of Fredrik Stang , Nils Yngvar Ustvedt and Edvard Hagerup Bull ( Bratlie , Stang and Ustvedt were former MPs from Uranienborg ) . Hambro received 14 , 501 votes , and thus won a landslide victory . The closest runner - up was G . E . Stubberød of Labour , who tallied only 1 , 504 votes . After the change to plural - member constituencies Hambro was re - elected to Parliament from the constituency Kristiania in 1921 , and , after it changed its name to Oslo , in 1924 , 1927 , 1930 , 1933 , 1936 , 1945 , 1949 and 1953 . He was a member of Parliament from 1919 to 1957 ; amounting to ten consecutive terms in total ( the 1940 election was called off because of World War II ) . C . J . Hambro served as President of the Parliament from 30 June 1926 to 10 January 1934 and from 21 March 1935 to 3 December 1945 , and President of the Assembly of the League of Nations delegates in 1939 – 40 and 1946 . He had originally voted against Norway ' s accession to the League of Nations , as one of only three representatives from his party to do so , citing that the Versailles Treaty did not create decent grounds for such an international organization . He chaired the Standing Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs from 1925 to 1945 , and was then a member from 1945 to 1957 . From 1945 to 1957 he was also a member of the Enlarged Committee on Foreign and Constitutional Affairs . In the Election Committee of the Parliament , he was the chairman from 1928 to 1945 and deputy chairman from 1945 to 1957 . C . J . Hambro served as acting party chairman in 1926 , and party chairman from 1928 to 1934 and 1945 to 1954 . He was also a central board member from 1934 to 1964 . He was never a member of any government , despite that his party formed several cabinet during his parliamentary tenure . He instead chose to work as chairman of his party as well as its parliamentary group ; the two posts had actually become open to him when Ivar Lykke chose to form his cabinet in 1926 . Views . Hambro was known as a cosmopolite . He did not follow the group Fedrelandslaget , which was vying for conservative support , in their nationalism . In the so - called " Greenland Question " , he arbitrated with Denmark in 1923 – 1924 when Denmark claimed sovereignty over Greenland , and had meant that Denmark acted unjustified . However , when forces in and outside of the then - Agrarian government annexed " Erik the Red ' s Land " in 1931 , Hambro was strictly against it . The Agrarian Party revenged itself on Hambro by voting him down as President of the Parliament in 1934 , but Hambro won support from the adversaries in the Labour Party to regain the post . He nurtured a personal friendship with figures such as the Labour Party ' s foremost politician , Johan Nygaardsvold . Despite his family ' s Jewish roots , Hambro was a Christian . He more or less adhered to the views of Oxford Group , without being an actual member of this group . Role in World War II . Hambro played a crucial role at the time of the German invasion of Norway in 9 April 1940 . He was one of the few politicians who really understood Hitler ' s ambitions toward the country . Learning from what had happened to Czechoslovakia in 1938 , Hambro was prepared , and with only six hours advance notice , he managed to organize the escape of king Haakon VII and his royal family , the government , prominent members of Parliament and the gold reserves of the Bank of Norway . They all left on a train commissioned by Hambro just 30 minutes before the Germans arrived in Oslo . The Germans had then been delayed by the sinking of the German cruiser " Blücher " . In the days after the invasion , Hambro worked actively from Sweden ' s capital Stockholm to correct the image the American journalist Leland Stowe had portrayed of the situation in Norway . While in Sweden , Hambro also was instrumental in organizing the fledgling Norwegian underground resistance movement via telephone . Post - war life . After the Second World War , he was a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1956 . He was a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee from 1940 to 1963 . Legacy . Hambro was a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature . His most prestigious awards were the Grand Cross of the Order of St . Olav in 1937 and the Medal for Outstanding Civic Service in 1952 . He also got the Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland , the Haakon VII 70th Anniversary Medal and the St . Olav ' s Medal . When he died in December 1964 , he received a state funeral in the honorary section of Vår Frelsers gravlund . He has a square in the centre of Oslo named after him , C . J . Hambros plass , in which are sited both the Oslo District Court and the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime in Norway . Streets have been named after him in Heimdal and Fyllingsdalen ( " C . J . Hambros vei " ) as well as Elverum ( " C . J . Hambros veg " ) . A statue of him was erected in 1995 at the square in front of the Parliament , Eidsvolls plass .