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...other hand, the Swedish General Staff was known to favor armed intervention now rather than wait for the Red Army to reach Sweden's frontiers. Although the Swedish press is generally well controlled by the Government, the Handels-och Sjofartstidning of Goteborg spoke up sharply...
Individualist. One Swedish journalist who has stubbornly resisted regimentation by Nazi imperialists is Torgny Segerstedt, editor-owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion...
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has. been shown in 48 countries outside the U. S., under names ranging from SnÖvit och de Sju Dvärjarma (Swedish) to Snjeharka (Czech), with "dubbings" in Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation...
...Beethoven and Brahms. His present fame has arrived slowly and late. His music, individual, serious, austere and sometimes forbidding, contains no trace of modernistic tricks or formulas. As he once remarked to his publisher (in Swedish) "Här i utlandet fabricemr ni cocktails i olika külorer, och nu kommer jag med rena källvattnet" ("Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure cold water...
...first step came in 1903, when an Englishman named Fred Lowenadler guided the merger of six factories into the Jonkopings och Vulcans Tandstickfabriks-aktiebolag. Ten years went by before the remaining import companies were led by Ivar Kreuger into the Aktiebolaget Forenade Svenska Tandstickfabriker. These two combines functioned independently until 1917, when they agreed on a cost-saving and letter-saving merger. They became, briefly, the Svenska Tandsticksaktiebolaget. Translated literally, they became the Swedish Match...