Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond the battle lines, under the hard official crust, the Reich was heaving. From Berlin came persistent stories of peace riots. There were frequent killings in the streets. Travelers to Bern and Stockholm now began to report that Germans might revolt. The Russian radio broadcast easy lessons in disarming police patrols. Said Moscow: "A hefty stick will get you a revolver; to get a rifle and a few grenades with the help of a pistol is no work of art." Himmler announced appointment of a new police chief for Berlin...
...editions of TIME, printed on every continent except Antarctica. TIME U. S. (four printings) Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Classroom; TIME Canadian; TIME Air Express for Latin America (five printings); Export, Mexico City, Bogotá, Buenas Aires, Sào Paulo; TIME Overseas (three printings); Export Honolulu, Stockholm; TIME for the Armed Forces (seven printings); Pony, Pacific Pony, VMail, Sydney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo...
Businessmen and industrialists joined hands with Finland's biggest trade-union leader, oldtime Bolshevik Eero Vuori. Vuori might become a link between Bolshevik-hating Baron Mannerheim and Moscow. For despite Risto Ryti's promise to Hitler, secret talks between Finns and Russians had been resumed in Stockholm. Out of them came a Finnish hope that Moscow would deal with Mannerheim...
...Sweden's Gunder Hägg; a two-mile race, beating his own two-mile world record of 8:46:4 by three and six-tenths seconds; at Stockholm Stadium. His great rival Arne Andersson, one-mile record holder (TIME, July 31), did not compete...
East Prussia, bloodied by history, was a fitting arena for the first real battles on German soil in World War II. But it did not seem so to the Germans in East Prussia. They, according to reports in Stockholm, exhibited "the highest state of alarm." At Königsberg the Nazis were said to be dismantling the port installations. The wife of Gauleiter Erich Koch departed for the German interior with three truckloads of furniture...