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...London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area. But if it was true that the Allies had 100,000 men ready to start for Finland last March, it was possible that a second A. E. F. wave equal to the first was ready last week in reserve...
Nine months ago Sweden felt she could look on the swelling pride of Germany and Russia with relative complacence. She was the geographical centre of a ring of seven well-disposed, small, but collectively considerable, Baltic and Scandinavian States: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Norway. One or another of them might be threatened, but it was hardly plausible that a nation ringed around with seven such neighbors would have to face the worst...
Last week seven out of seven of Sweden's neighbors had been raped, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Norway by arms, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by threats. Sweden was the only untouched survivor of the group and the march of events pointed now straight...
...newspaper with material. If an article is refused, the newspaper can expect the immediate cancellation of advertisements by German-owned firms and their Swedish branches. Germany's invasion of Norway failed to get the same vigorous condemnation in the Swedish press that Russia's attack on Finland received...
Imports. No. 1 U. S. import from Scandinavia is newsprint and wood pulp. Of 3,550,000 tons of newsprint used in the U. S. last year, 300,000 came from Scandinavia and Finland. Of 9,003,000 tons of pulp used by U. S. manufacturers of kraft, newsprint, book papers, 1,305,000 came from Sweden, Norway and Finland...