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...Erik Axel Karlfeldt--Swedish writer, winner of Nobel prize in literature...
Awarded. To the late Dr. Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and member of its Nobel Prize Committee on Literature, who died at 66 last April; the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1931. He refused the award...
...Gustily he spoke of his summer doings. He had conducted in Milan, Naples, had tried to reduce at Marienbad, had peered about Venice for antiques and lace. With five cameras (two cinema) he and his wife had photographed each other climbing up the Jungfrau, standing in front of Dr. Axel Munthe's San Michele on Capri...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
Many a soldier has rushed into print, but not often on the side of the angels. Major Karl-Axel Bratt, Swedish staff officer and member of the committee considering Sweden's national defense policy, has written a book about the next war, but against it, not for it. Like many another Cassandra, Major Bratt thinks that unless Something Is Done the next war will be upon us before we know...