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...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...
...Social Democrats are the dominant party in Sweden, as all over Scandinavia, but today Sweden's humbly born, self-educated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, no towering figure of social dynamism, takes life and politics just about as easily as does King Gustaf, with whom he frequently sits up into the small hours at the Royal Palace playing bridge...
Prime Minister: Per Albin Hansson...
Three immigrants, now U. S. citizens, were awarded annual scrolls of the National Institute of Immigrant Welfare for "significant contributions to American life": Russian-born David Sarnoff, 48, President of R. C. A.; Scotland-born William Allan Neilson, 70, President of Smith College; Moravian-born Albin Polasek, 60, famed Chicago sculptor...
...that did not settle the matter. In the Riksdag a member named Herr Wallén (who just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...