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Then it was revealed just how far Germany had been prepared to go. Editor Allan Vougt of the Malmö Arbetet, who is generally considered the Swedish Foreign Office mouthpiece, confirmed the report that German troops had been concentrated at Gdynia and Danzig, ready for immediate transshipment to either Finland or Sweden. And troops were apparently ready to move across Denmark...
...their weakness the Scandinavian States began to grope for the strength of unity. In Helsinki Foreign Minister Väinö A. Tanner announced that even while peace negotiations had been going on, Finland had broached to Sweden and Norway the subject of a mutual defense pact. Denmark had been left out because the country was obviously indefensible...
Sweden and Norway were interested. Sweden's Foreign Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have...
This week Foreign Minister Günther delivered Sweden's best defense against the charges made by Premier Daladier that Scandinavia had blocked Allied help. "I want to emphasize," said he, "that the idea of coming to the help of Finland had opened vistas to the Allied powers that particularly appealed to the French. The deadlock on the Western Front was not popular, and the newspapers in France spoke of the. hunt for new battlefields. Moreover, the removal of the war to Scandinavia would have given an opportunity to cut off the iron-ore exports to Germany. ... It suffices...
...Finland. Not so surprisingly, the most sense-making and least rancorous explanation of the peace came from Finland, that nation that enjoys the Northern world's highest percentage of college graduates and where illiteracy is unknown. Said Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner to his people and the world...