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...managed to bring the whole world of Scandinavia concisely and fully into the pages of TIME [July 3]. You pinpointed the reasons why the number of North American visitors to Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have increased more than three times over in the last ten years: they go, not only for pleasure, but also to observe and study the exciting and, on the whole, remarkably successful Scandinavian solutions for so many of the problems that face all societies. TORE H. NILERT...
...Finland, a Swedish colony for 650 years, became a grand duchy of Russia in 1809, prompting the ringing plea: "Swedes we are no longer. Russians we can never be. Therefore we must be come Finns." Finland finally proclaimed its independence in 1917, has been Finnish ever since. An earthy, engaging, moody people who have fought war after war, and always started again from the ruins, they regard sisu, plain guts, as the highest virtue. For, say Finns, "Whatever happens, we will be on the wrong side...
...vast (118,000 sq. mi.), rugged land is becoming industrialized. However, wood products still account for three-quarters of its exports, and the government has only recently awakened to the fact that the forests have been badly overexploited. Finland's wage-price spiral rises unchecked, largely because of welfare state benefits that are beyond its means. The Finns are such heavy topers that the government wraps every bottle of liquor in a temperance tract. More worrisome for a nation of only 4,500,000 is the legal abortion rate, which has doubled in ten years...
...they have rebuilt and restocked their own country, Finnish architects and designers have stamped it with a clean, distinctively Finnish elegance that makes Leningrad, less than an hour's flight away, look drab. To the delight of sauna-worshiping Finns, the sauna vogue has become international, providing Finland with a new export...
...seventh of Sweden, one-third of Norway, and a quarter of Finland lie above the Arctic Circle. -They had the same great-great-grandfather, Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...