Word: skagerrak
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William Bliss Harris, who manages the TIME editions printed in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Persia and India, has been in Sweden ever since October arranging for this first European edition of TIME (he was scheduled to leave Scotland on the Swedish plane the Germans shot down in the Skagerrak, is alive today only because he was switched at the last minute to a British bomber...
Winging its way across the dark Skagerrak, the big Swedish airliner Gripen was nearing home shores on its run from Aberdeen to Stockholm...
Trawling in close order through the choppy Skagerrak off the northwest tip of Denmark early one morning last week, five Swedish fishing vessels sighted three dark shapes approaching. The Swedes knew they were in international waters, knew their hulls were a bright blue and gold, knew their flags were flying. They saw that the newcomers were German minesweepers...
...longer could conquer Sweden-and possibly because Per Albin's government believes that soon the Allies will be strong enough to take back Norway. This would make it possible for Sweden to get supplies from the outside world without German safe-conduct for her ships through the Skagerrak...
Trolls in the Forests. Outward appearances last week placed the Swedes closer to a break with Germany than at any other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...