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...spot by all sides of the warring nations. Almost daily the casualties of Scandinavian shipping mounted until the score stood at 92 merchantmen sunk, 753 seamen killed-all by the Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed the Stockholm Tidningen...
That denial exasperated the Swedes, and all the more so when an investigating commission examined some duds and found them of Russian make. Swedish "activists" immediately redoubled their demands that the country jump into the war on Finland's side regardless of consequences. All over Scandinavia young men rushed in greater numbers than ever to Finnish volunteer recruiting stations. It was a question of touch-&-go whether popular demand would not force the Swedish Government into openly helping Finland...
...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 Civil...
...desperate (and perhaps last) attempt to save Northern Europe's neutrality Foreign Ministers Dr. Peter Munch of Denmark, Halvdan Koht of Norway, and Christian Günther of Sweden met at Copenhagen's Christiansborg Palace. The Foreign Minister of Finland, which is perforce no longer neutral, did not attend. As they met the Nazi press lectured them on how to be a good neutral: 1) follow the U. S. example and stop shipping to Britain; 2) quit the League of Nations; 3) stick to the recent neutrality proclamation of Sweden's Gustaf V (TIME...
...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...