Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Later in the war, in a copy of TIME that reached Japan via neutral Stockholm, Iva first learned of the G.I. nickname "Tokyo Rose"-or so she says...
...Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustaf V turned 91. His traditional birthday fishing party was rained out (the day before he had landed a five-pound pike with no help from anyone); so he celebrated indoors, with a half-bottle of red wine for lunch, and a visit from great-grandson Prince Carl Gustaf, 3, who brought flowers and homemade birthday candles...
Soviet Air Force Lieutenant Ilya Muchets was looking for his destiny in the opposite direction. After grazing a nearby mountain, the 26-year-old pilot crashed his single-engined fighter on the runway at Stockholm's Södertörn Military Airport. He said that he was "just fed up with Russia...
...fanning pockets painlessly. The unrationed Irish were plugging low-cost train and motor tours. In Portugal travelers could relax in one of Europe's few unscarred landscapes, and rub shoulders with out-of-season royalty at the gaming tables of Estoril, Lisbon's lush suburb. At Stockholm they could buy a 30-day, $995 "inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone...
...different ways and places TIME filtered through to the Continent. Clandestine underground publications kept Occupied France supplied with TIME material which arrived via Portugal. By 1944 we were printing a Scandinavian edition behind the German blockade in neutral Stockholm from film (of TIME's pages) flown from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through...