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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...
...office. They were the Cabinet Ministers who formed Sweden's new coalition Government. Among them were a few familiar faces. Easygoing, affable, fanciful Premier Per Albin Hansson had also headed the outgoing Cabinet. But there were some missing faces, and conspicuous among these was that of disillusioned Rickard J. Sandier, who had served as Foreign Minister the past seven years. He was going back to his old job as head of the Central Bureau of Statistics and his absence at the Palace told a story of the confusion of purposes and the divided counsels that today grip Scandinavia...
...even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial help Finland might hold Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden, meeting with Denmark's Peter Munch in Oslo, agreed to pass the buck to the League of Nations. But unofficially both Norway and Sweden did all they could for Finland...
...Bishop Rowe's first sermons was preached to the sourdoughs in Cy Marx's Fairbanks saloon. Marx, a Jew, started the collection with a $10 bill, raised $1,400. "Tough and generous" Tex Rickard, who ran a saloon and gambling house, helped raise money for the Episcopal hospital in Circle City, first in the interior of Alaska. In those gold-rush days, Bishop Rowe bunked with Rex Beach and Jack London, taught the latter about Huskies...
Such was Swedish alarm that Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler declared flatly that "if the Finns agree to present ports to the Soviet Union this would signify the end of Scandinavia!" The Pravda headline over this was Hypocritical Political Game Of Certain Swedish Statesmen. Russian press and radio charged that Britain and France were egging Norway and Sweden into egging Finland into disastrous truculence. "During the Tsarist regime Finland was completely subjected to Russia," snorted Pravda. "Then, Swedish statesmen never muttered about danger for Sweden, but cringed and groveled in every way before the Tsarist Government!" They now have a chance...