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...Swedish girls are not so cold as you Spaniards may think, I am burning with desire to teach the Spaniards how Nordic women can love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swedish Nightingale | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Nordic Charm. The job did give a girl a chance to meet prominent people. Of her first introduction to Adolf Hitler, Brita confided: "Many good-looking girls were present [at a fashionable wedding] but the Fuhrer made straight for me, probably because I happened to be the tallest, blondest and most 'Aryan' of the collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swedish Nightingale | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...vegetarian. He adores U.S. breakfast cereals, drinks herb tea instead of coffee, occasionally sips a glass of light wine. Unlike Hitler, he occasionally smokes cigars. Himmler shares Hitler's interest in what they call art and wants his whole SS to be art-conscious and to have good Nordic taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man in the Way | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...with distinct advantages over other small European nations. Some Swedish newspapers have a fondness for saying: "Swedish industry will win the peace." But the Norwegians, for whom the Swedes have a sincere respect and sympathy, have already shown a leaning toward Britain rather than toward a Pan Nordic bloc in which Sweden would be the largest power. The Swedes admire and respect the fighting qualities of the Finns and have done everything but go to war to keep Finland intact as a buffer against Russia. But the two peoples invariably get on each other's nerves. Business, trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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