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...Voted to reconsider the admission of 14 new U.N. members (five of them Soviet satellite countries) on a package deal proposed by Russia. This was a small orchid for the departed Vishinsky and a minor defeat for the U.S., which is anxious to include the other nine (Italy, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Ceylon, Nepal, Jordan and Libya), but resents Russia's exclusion of South Korea and its inclusion of satellite Outer Mongolia, which is no more a sovereign nation than South Dakota. Addition of the other satellite countries (Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Albania) would also relatively strengthen the voting...
...Norway and Denmark-the argument goes-Sweden could not help them by joining NATO, since Sweden is at her peak in armament now. Thus Sweden has a buffer in Finland, and Norway and Denmark have a buffer in Sweden. (Many Swedish military men will privately tell you that the defense of Scandinavia would be stronger if coordinated...
...ideologically." Just the same, Sweden will not become part of any bloc; she will fight only if she is attacked. Thereby-so runs the argument-she is actually doing her neighbors a favor: if Sweden had joined NATO, the Russians would have had a perfect excuse to take Finland. (The Russians don't need an excuse to take Finland...
Commander in chief of Sweden's defense forces since last spring is General Nils Svedlund, nicknamed "The Great Thunderer." At 52 he was moved to the top over several older generals, e.g., Carl Ehrensvard, an excellent officer who fought against Russia in Finland's Winter War. Ehrensvard would have got the top job, but the cautious government considered him too outspokenly anti-Russian...
...Reader's Digest is the biggest (936,070) of all monthlies. In Sweden, Det Bästa ur Readers Digest (circ. 268,184) is the biggest monthly, as Selezione dal Reader's Digest is in Italy and Valitut Palat koon-nut Reader's Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read it in Braille or hear it on Talking Book...