Word: hansson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Per Albin Hansson, 60, onetime gooseherd who rose to the leadership of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, was for 14 years Prime Minister (since 1932), pursued a neutrality policy that kept Sweden out of World War II; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...
...theme song of the conference was: "Scandinavians, get together." Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship. Laski too was stirred. Hailing the advance of socialism in Britain, France, Belgium and Scandinavia, he cried: -"All of us stand side by side...
Premier Per Albin Hansson, a cautious Socialist who plays bridge with the King and bowls with cottagers, found it militarily safe and politically popular to take back a concession which Hitler had wrung from Sweden soon after the fall of Norway: the privilege of shipping troops and war supplies through Sweden to Norway and Finland. The concession had to be made because Hitler could have conquered Sweden. It was withdrawn because Hitler no longer could conquer Sweden-and possibly because Per Albin's government believes that soon the Allies will be strong enough to take back Norway. This would...
Stolid Premier Per Albin Hansson looked anxiously over clean, quiet Stockholm, at Sweden's six-thousand-mile-long frontier, and beyond. Across the war-torn Baltic, Red Armies had lifted the siege of Leningrad (see p. 33) and threatened to push on into starving, freezing Finland. To the south, British and U.S. bombs fell regularly on German cities. Westward, across the Skagerrak, German sappers and soldiers from Trondheim to Narvik threw up fortifications against the Allied attack they feared...
Sweden's conservative press reasoned fairly that the Communists won only 42 out of 1,520 council seats (a gain of 16). The real victors of the elections had been the Farmers, who gained 36 seats and now held 212. Prime Minister Hansson's safe Social Democrats still held 831 seats-an absolute majority. Even the anything-but-pro-Bolshevik Helsinki radio called Communist gains in Sweden "moderate and in no way surprising...