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Sweden's burly Premier Per Albin Hansson has been called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 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...
Unless altered by public pressure, of which there is plenty, Premier Hansson's and the King's decision to play the neutral game to its logical and perhaps tragic end seemed to mean taps for independent Finland. Norway was much too agitated about the Nazi-British battle over the Alt-mark last week (see p. 34) to think much about Finland. Denmark has no army to speak...
...Premier Hansson referred the Foreign Minister to a recent speech before the Swedish Parliament in which the Premier stressed Swedish neutrality, promised only "material, humanitarian" aid to Finland. The Premier could also point out that Sweden had already sent more than $25,000,000 in voluntary cash contributions and $70,000,000 worth of materials to Finland, that thousands of Finnish civilian refugees have been cared for in Sweden. M. Tanner, on his part, could reply that what Finland desperately needs now to reinforce her small, tired Army is not money but soldiers. No soldiers, said the Swedish Premier...
Under the same law, Minister Westman confiscated onetime Nazi Hermann Rauschning's new book, The Voice of Destruction (see p. 8g), two hours after it came from the press. Exclaimed Publisher Johan Hansson, who had carefully expurgated the Swedish text before it appeared: "What a strange kind of democracy we now have in this country!" As last month ended, Minister Westman had permission from the Cabinet to draft a new and drastic law defining responsibilities of the press...