Word: hansson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last several weeks dynamic V. A. Tanner, Foreign Minister of Finland, has made several hurried trips to Stockholm, where he has had long talks with Swedish Premier Per Albin Hansson...
...Tanner, whose part in the pre-war Finnish-Russian negotiations at the Kremlin made him the pet hate of Moscow, forthrightly asked Premier Hansson for two divisions of the Swedish Army. Otherwise, he warned, Finland would be forced either to sue for a peace with Russia "in a manner greatly concerning Sweden" (i.e., give up the Aland Islands which would point Russian guns squarely at Sweden's head), or appeal for direct aid from France and Britain...
This was a direct challenge to Rickard Sandler's old friend, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. The pained expression on the Prime Minister's face suggested that he considered it a stab in the back. Most members of the Riksdag thought it was certainly a bid for all those who want Sweden openly to enter the war against Russia to rally around Rickard Sandler. For the first time he disclosed the reason for his resignation last month, admitting that he wanted to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 men to the Aland Islands, which scheme Prime Minister...
...Stockholm's Royal Palace last week, 13 men stood before old King Gustaf V and took their oaths of office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence...
...Social Democrats are the dominant party in Sweden, as all over Scandinavia, but today Sweden's humbly born, self-educated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, no towering figure of social dynamism, takes life and politics just about as easily as does King Gustaf, with whom he frequently sits up into the small hours at the Royal Palace playing bridge...