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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...
...most violent of the Hitler lieutenants, was promised the Foreign Ministry months ago when Handsome Adolf dreamed of an all-Nazi Cabinet. If he could not be Foreign Minister last week Herr Göring determined to act like one. When the Swedish Gothenburg Handelsoch Sjöfartstidning declared: "It is incomprehensible that the statesmen and Press of the world should be compelled to occupy themselves with this figure. Hitler is an insult." Fiery Hermann Göring promptly telegraphed the editor: "As a true friend of the Swedish people I see in such dirty expressions a serious danger...
...Much of what they (Syndicalists) say amounts to this: that a minority, consisting of skilled workers in vital industries, can by a strike, make the economic life of the whole country impossible, and can in this way force their will upon the nation," SJ writes Bertrand Russell of the Syndicalists. In other words the rule of the majority as a principle of government is denied...