Word: albinism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's burly Premier Per Albin Hansson has been called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish...
...last several weeks dynamic V. A. Tanner, Foreign Minister of Finland, has made several hurried trips to Stockholm, where he has had long talks with Swedish Premier Per Albin Hansson...
This was a direct challenge to Rickard Sandler's old friend, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. The pained expression on the Prime Minister's face suggested that he considered it a stab in the back. Most members of the Riksdag thought it was certainly a bid for all those who want Sweden openly to enter the war against Russia to rally around Rickard Sandler. For the first time he disclosed the reason for his resignation last month, admitting that he wanted to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 men to the Aland Islands, which scheme Prime Minister...