Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
With Denmark helplessly at the mercy of Germany, Finland desperate, and the cave-digging Swedes still uncommitted to a scrap for Scandinavia, Norway delivered what looked like a spunky slap at the glowering Russian Bear by baldly reversing the Russian view of the City of Flint case and turning the ship back to its U. S. crew...
Ominous in Swedish eyes was the fact that Mme Alexandra Kollontay, the Soviet Minister to Sweden, suddenly was called to Moscow. The world's first fully accredited woman diplomat, Minister Kollontay has had 16 years' experience in Scandinavia. Handsome, spirited, cultured, fashionably dressed, Mme Kollontay has long been an exquisite hostess whose invitations were eagerly sought. More than anyone else, this talented revolutionary-turned-diplomat, daughter of a Tsarist general and a part Finnish mother, would be able to tell Negotiator Stalin just how solid Scandinavian neutrality was, just when and where the Scandinavian countries might fight...
Prince Gustaf served as a young man in the Swedish Army, began to step out, travel and see the world when as Crown Prince in 1878 he paid his first visit to England. There, so far as Sweden was concerned, he "discovered tennis," proceeded to popularize the game in Scandinavia. No mere athlete, however, the Crown Prince buckled down during these years to problems of State. Of these the most pressing was the growing discontent of Norway under the Swedish Crown and there were plenty of Swedes with an Abraham Lincoln mentality who preferred civil war to permitting secession...
...Social Democrats are the dominant party in Sweden, as all over Scandinavia, but today Sweden's humbly born, self-educated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, no towering figure of social dynamism, takes life and politics just about as easily as does King Gustaf, with whom he frequently sits up into the small hours at the Royal Palace playing bridge...