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...batteries) are fast, heavy ships, not as powerful as their U.S. opposites (cruisers of the Brooklyn class) but not taken lightly by U.S. Navy men. Swedish naval intelligence revealed that last month, two of these sleek new Soviet sharks (probably the Chapaev and the Chkalov) slipped out of the Baltic through the Oresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It was the first time since the late 1930s that heavy Soviet naval vessels had been out in the Atlantic...
...pressure, the Swedes , arrested Wollweber one day in 1941 and prepared to hand him over. But he casually produced papers showing that he had become a Soviet citizen and got off with a jail sentence for stealing explosives. Even during his imprisonment, Wollweber kept his apparatus working. Many a Baltic ship listed as a mine casualty was actually the victim of a Wollweber time bomb secreted in its hold. Three of Sweden's most modern destroyers went to the bottom...
Soon after landing at Oslo, Sport Researcher Anne Denny took time out to do the story of Holmen-kollen ski jump (TIME, March 12), then went to Stockholm to board a boat that broke through Baltic Sea ice into Turku, Finland. In Helsinki she talked with officials of the 1952 Olympics, took a trip up into Lapland. There among the hospitable Finns she had a wild ride in a reindeer sleigh, skied, watched trotting races on the frozen Kemi River. Though she later divided three weeks between Paris and Brussels, her next long stop was again ski country, this time...
...hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy of the Scroll of the Jewish Torah on behalf of the national council...
...years Russia has had two or three battleships under construction. At least one of them, the Sovietsky Soyuz, may be in commission in the Baltic. Russia is not known to have any carriers, but the Red navy is developing a land-based naval air force...