Word: rickards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm protested vigorously and daringly to Moscow against Russian air violation of Swedish neutrality (TIME, Jan 22). Sweden was growing tired of pussyfooting when Sweden's discarded Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandler 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...