Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Swedish volunteers were killed in Finland last week (see p. 34). Stockholm's largest four newspapers carried full-page advertisements saying: "Now that the world knows what it is to be a Finn, it is your duty to show what it means to be a Swede. Make up your mind now and join the Swedish volunteer Army. With Finland for Sweden...
...Stockholm protested vigorously and daringly to Moscow against Russian air violation of Swedish neutrality (TIME, Jan 22). Sweden was growing tired of pussyfooting when Sweden's discarded Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandler rose up in the Riksdag to give that usually placid body its biggest political sensation in many a year. In a speech studded with such caustic remarks as "This neutrality is idiocy," he declared: "The meeting last October of four heads of Northern States, with its fascinating display of Nordic solidarity, was only a grandiose and beautiful screen behind which the practical cooperation that was the urgent...
Correspondents rushed to Stockholm, scenting a crisis. A Danish correspondent telephoned his paper: "The new European religion of fatalism has seized Sweden. No one doubts that the situation contains serious dangers. This does not mean that the danger is unavoidable . . . but let it come. Sweden has taken her stand and is remaining there...
...three days Stockholm awaited Russia's reply to the Swedish protest. A hard answer might bring war. Nobody realized this more clearly than Joseph Stalin. When the answer came, it was a formal apology...
...STOCKHOLM--Eight bombers flew over the Swedish soaport town of Lulea today and dropped in the vicinity nine bombs, splinters of one of which were said to have determined it was of Russian origin...