Word: segerstedt
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Individualist. One Swedish journalist who has stubbornly resisted regimentation by Nazi imperialists is Torgny Segerstedt, editor-owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion...
...savage campaign of abuse has been launched against Segerstedt in such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt. Before Christmas, when Germany and Sweden were on the eve of a long-awaited trade pact, it was an open secret that one Swedish concession demanded by the Nazis was that Torgny Segerstedt be silenced. Rumor said that, for every hostile story in the Gazette, Nazi negotiators threatened to have a Swedish ship sunk without warning...