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...rose up in the Riksdag to give that usually placid body its biggest political sensation in many a year. In a speech studded with such caustic remarks as "This neutrality is idiocy," he declared: "The meeting last October of four heads of Northern States, with its fascinating display of Nordic solidarity, was only a grandiose and beautiful screen behind which the practical cooperation that was the urgent need of the hour has been quietly torpedoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Make Up Your Mind | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Christmas celebration in Germanic lands is not an invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reactions to Aggression | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...devastating the consequences of War II may be for the Nordic States no man can foresee. But with their democratic friends embattled far down the North Sea, and their totalitarian neighbors creeping across and along the Baltic, tears and tennis, trees and testimonials may well be not enough to save them. Against one Adolf Hitler, perhaps not even a Gustavus Adolphus would suffice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...fancy many Germans do, admiration for the British race with envy of their achievements and hatred of their opposition to Germany's excessive aspirations. It is no exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle to his own far-reaching plan of German domination in Europe. This is evident in Mein Kampf, and, in spite of what he regarded as the constant rebuffs which he received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Papers: More Good Reading | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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