Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again last week Scandinavia was the most critical spot on the map as its 13,000,000 citizens continued to be put on the spot by all sides of the warring nations. Almost daily the casualties of Scandinavian shipping mounted until the score stood at 92 merchantmen sunk, 753 seamen killed-all by the Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed...
That denial exasperated the Swedes, and all the more so when an investigating commission examined some duds and found them of Russian make. Swedish "activists" immediately redoubled their demands that the country jump into the war on Finland's side regardless of consequences. All over Scandinavia young men rushed in greater numbers than ever to Finnish volunteer recruiting stations. It was a question of touch-&-go whether popular demand would not force the Swedish Government into openly helping Finland...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish...
...people of Sweden believe this, even if their new peace-at-any-price Government does not. Last week, with the Red Army at the gates of Viipuri (see p. 30), the biggest question in Scandinavia was no longer who would win the Russo-Finnish war but who was next on Joe Stalin's list. And yet, the Swedish people might not yet know how thoroughly their Government had given collective security in the North the miss-in-balk. Socialist Deputy Flyg, long vociferously antiCommunist, s pilled the beans in his Stockholm newspaper Folkets Dagblad and thereby forced the Government...
...bases (Moscow denied that Kronstadt was raided), thousands of Swedes were flying and fighting on skis for Finland; an American volunteer aviator, one William H. Wallace Jr., was reported killed and then not killed; a deepening stream of men, materials and money was flowing from England, France, Italy and Scandinavia, not to mention the relief funds collected by Herbert Hoover...