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...floating obstacle in the rough water, ripping the fragile skin off its starboard front sponson; Lombardo had to slow up to prevent shipping too much water. Notre Dame, the 1937 Gold Cup winner, went on to win the first heat, then had engine trouble and missed the second entirely. Albin Fallon's Miss Great Lakes had engine trouble, fell behind; three other boats dropped out altogether...
Died. Per Albin Hansson, 60, onetime gooseherd who rose to the leadership of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, was for 14 years Prime Minister (since 1932), pursued a neutrality policy that kept Sweden out of World War II; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
Premier Per Albin Hansson, a cautious Socialist who plays bridge with the King and bowls with cottagers, found it militarily safe and politically popular to take back a concession which Hitler had wrung from Sweden soon after the fall of Norway: the privilege of shipping troops and war supplies through Sweden to Norway and Finland. The concession had to be made because Hitler could have conquered Sweden. It was withdrawn because Hitler no longer could conquer Sweden-and possibly because Per Albin's government believes that soon the Allies will be strong enough to take back Norway. This would...
...Albin saw the dangers. An advocate of moderation in all things, he made up his mind that now there was no room for moderation. When he raised his bushy brows to address the Riksdag last week no trace of the middle-of-the-road Social Democrat was left. Sweden would fight to the last man if attacked, said he. "Every order . . . that defense is to cease will be false...