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...ELISE OTTESEN-JENSEN STOCKHOLM...
Rarely have I seen such a piece of unfair and misleading reporting as Joe David Brown's article about sin & Sweden. To say that Mrs. Ottesen-Jensen's views on sex relations are typically Swedish is wrong; to let a 19-year-old boy, as a final note on Swedish manners, declare that he would never marry a girl because he made her pregnant is foul...
...than in most Roman Catholic countries, and many children born out of wedlock are legitimized by subsequent marriage. Quoting a Roman Catholic priest on Sweden would be a good deal like quoting a Communist on American democracy ! . . . The most shocking aspect of your attack is the slandering of Elise Ottesen-Jensen. She has fought the abortion evil for decades, one of her weapons being the maintenance of a home for unmarried mothers . . I have lived in many countries and, for my money, the Swedes have as high a standard of ethics as any people I know...
...qualifications and refused to let her compete, the young mother received bales of encouraging letters and the judges were roundly blasted. The sex education given in public schools would make even the most modern, broad-minded American parent blanch. At a party in Stockholm, I met Mrs. Elise Ottesen-Jensen, the 17th of 18 children of a Norwegian family, a vigorous, outspoken woman who looks years younger than she is (69). She travels all over Sweden by car, train and even on skis to run clinics, advises branch offices and lectures on birth control and sex relations...
From Paris went five American aviators : Fred Ottesen, Marcus Clark, George Folds, Vincent Schmidt (who fought for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War) and Charles Stehlin (who flew for Franco...
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