Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scandinavia. When the first peace rumors ran from house to house in Stockholm, Swedish families and societies planned festivities. The Swedish Government was delighted to escape from its squeeze between the upper millstone of threatened Allied intervention and the nether-threat of German reprisal for permitting it. Norway and Denmark were likewise relieved. The Copenhagen Politiken, splashing the first news on yellow handbills which were joyfully snatched by gasping passersby, commented: "Happiness will be felt all over the North that the final outcome of suspense was a message of peace...
...talking peace ever since Wednesday. An unnamed Finnish Army officer observed: "Now that they are trying to drag this war down to the level of European politics, there can be but little hope for a clear decision." In greatest secrecy, a plane had taken off from Helsinki, headed for Stockholm, stopped there briefly, set out again, and gone straight across Latvia to Moscow. Its passengers were an extraordinary crew...
...editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...
...From Stockholm it was reported late Monday that modified terms had been agreed upon in Moscow-strangely in the United States Embassy-and that the Finnish delegation was on its way home to win Parliamentary approval. The new demands were said to be considerably easier: Viipuri, Sortavala, and Petsamo would not be taken; and instead of Hanko, Uto (halfway between Hanko and the Aland Islands) would do for a naval base; the Terijoki Government would be abandoned...
...only real fact to realize," said Finland's Minister to Stockholm Eljas Erkko, "is that war in Finland is still going on." All Europe's statesmen and all her journalists might be negotiating and writing about peace (see p.19) but in the heap of bricks that was Viipuri. along the Vuoksi where at least the surface of the ice was beginning to be spongy, above Lake Laatokka where the Finns say they came on a freezing, black-clad Russian holding up his arms and crying: "Don't shoot me! I'm a Russian capitalist": far north...