Word: aftontidningen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Religious humanist Hesse is a novelist and poet whom few Americans have read; Stockholm's Aftontidningen found his selection "inscrutable." The secretary of the Swedish Academy gave a clue to the enigma by praising him as "one of those who first eluded German suppression of a free opinion." The gist of Hesse's opinion: mankind, though weak and imperfect, must meet the challenge of 20th Century chaos and by undiscouraged effort try to create whatever areas of meaningful existence...
After last week's heavy bombing of Darmstadt (pop. 115,500), the Allies heard rumors that explosions had burst tanks of chlorine and other poison gases at chemical plants. Stockholm's Aftontidningen (Evening News) reported details: there were more casualties from the gas than from the bombs. A gas alarm was sounded in Germany for the first time. Darmstadt's population was told that Americans had dropped gas bombs. Several days later, when a thick sulphurous cloud still hovered over the city, the Germans had to retract this story...
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