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...known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim was that of 25,000 packages examined in three months, 17,000 did contain "contraband"; besides food and food orders, cash was being sent in Argentine pesos, Swedish kroner, other foreign currency, to bolster Germany's dwindling supply of foreign exchange; also diamonds, pearls, and maps of "potential military value...
...armed conflict touches the Swedish people. . . . Sweden feels an obligation to give Finland's brave people every material humanitarian help which is possible while heeding its own position." Finance Minister Ernst Johannes Wigforss indicated what form that heeding would take. He presented the first 2,000,000,000-kroner (about $476,600,000) budget in Sweden's history. Of this sum more than half was to be for defense...
...ready-made in fish markets and prairie ranches. They get that way only after years of hard training and plugging practice. No exception to this iron rule, Lauritz Melchior spent eight years before he rated a contract (in Copenhagen's Royal Opera) and a regular salary-1,000 kroner (about $200) a year. While he was still singing baritone roles at the Royal Opera, the eminent, U. S.-born vocal expert, Mme Charles Cahier, heard him, and wrote the director of the opera that Melchior was really no baritone but a tenor with the lid on. After...
...Navy mobilized for emergency, plus armament purchases and providing urban Swedes with gas masks and air-raid shelters, had largely done the job. Finance Minister Dr. Ernst Wigforss announced that since he reported balance to the Riksdag last January, the Kingdom had fallen in the red 600,000,000 kroner...
...total expenditure carried in Sweden's last normal budget was 1,340,000,000 kroner. Dr. Wigforss asked the Riksdag to authorize a loan of 300,000,000 kronor, and plans to raise the remaining 300,000,-ooo needed to cover his "emergency deficit" by drastic taxation, particularly by upping the already high and unpopular Swedish taxes on liquor, tobacco, coffee, sugar. Liquor is sold by the famed Swedish State Monopoly and in angry protest at the deficit taxes last week 200 sailors from the Swedish battleship Manligheten ("Manhood") returned their motbocker or liquor ration books to the State...