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...Sweden the 108-year-old Goteborgs Handels-och Sjojartstidning (Trade & Shipping Gazette) is what the Manchester Guardian is to Britain: a provincial paper that ranks above most metropolitan dailies because of its liberal, democratic traditions. White-haired Editor-Owner Torgny Segerstedt is famed among Swedes for his lyrical prose, his analytical mind, but most of all for the deadly sarcasm with which he attacks all enemies of Sweden's stubbornly free press...
...since World War II first loomed on Sweden's four horizons, such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt have waged a savage campaign of abuse against the Gazette and its owner. Rumor said last winter that Nazi trade negotiators even threatened reprisals against Swedish ship ping unless Editor Segerstedt were silenced (TIME, Feb. 26). Nevertheless, though Sweden was gradually encircled, Torgny Segerstedt went on writing as he pleased...
...Editor Segerstedt does not trust Ger many's reckoning of air losses over Britain, accepts British estimates as more accurate. Said he bitterly, one day last fortnight: "Any reproduction of British reports vio lates neutrality, as German propaganda sees it." Next day he added: "When a people like the British . . . fight for every thing which they consider holy, their resistance cannot be broken by a few bombing raids. . . . They will fight, if they must, among heaps of ruins. They will fight with the certainty that final victory is theirs...
With obvious reluctance, the Swedish Government put caution before valor, confiscated the two offending issues of the Gazette. Last week they confiscated an other. Unlike several Swedish editors who have been arrested (for violating an obsolete press law forbidding "offensive writings" about a foreign State), Torgny Segerstedt did not go to jail...
Fear of German reprisals drove a group of Göteborg shipowners to issue a public protest against Editor Segerstedt. In an effort to bridle his tongue, they invited the Government to indict him. Newsmen in Sweden were taking bets last week on how long Editor Segerstedt and Sweden's press would last before censorship got them under. Segerstedt wrote each day's column as if it might be his farewell to Swedish journalism. Said he, one day last week: "We haven't much more prestige to lose in Britain, France and the U. S. In these...