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...Sweden's "embarrassment" over the Solzhenitsyn Nobel Prize [Sept. 13] testifies to the farcical nature of Sweden's "neutrality." One can imagine what sanctimonious rage might flow from Stockholm were the Nobel Prize awarded to, say, a Greek or Spanish writer, and his respective government responded to the honors a la the Kremlin's response to Solzhenitsyn. One hopes that, even in Sweden, enough righteous anger will be generated to force a more honest policy toward Russia's greatest living literary figure...
Hubel was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1926 and received his medical degree from McGill University Medical School in 1951. Wiesel was born in Upsala, Sweden, in 1924. He received his medical degree from the Karinska Institute in Stockholm...
...Bormann was sentenced to death in absentia for his war crimes, two men claimed that he died on the night of May 1 before reaching the Friedrichstrasse Station. But his corpse was never found, and four weeks later his voice was reportedly heard over a secret radio station in Stockholm, triggering rumors that have not yet ceased...
Problematic Ceremony. While the Swedish embassy fretted, Solzhenitsyn decided not to go to Stockholm to receive his award from King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, because he feared that the Soviet government would not allow him to return to Russia. He then inquired if the Nobel Prize could be given to him at the Swedish embassy. The ambassador, Gunnar Jarring, could have acted as the King's representative. At first there seemed to be no obstacle; Jarring's predecessor in Russia had presented the prize to Soviet Physicist Lev Landau in Moscow...
...letter from Solzhenitsyn to the Swedish Academy via diplomatic pouch. But Solzhenitsyn emerged, says Hegge, with the decided impression that Jarring would be unwilling to transmit his planned Nobel Prize lecture in the same manner. Solzhenitsyn had intended to spend five months writing the lecture for publication in Stockholm. Since the Soviets regularly confiscate his mail, the pouch was the only means of transmitting it. Hegge is convinced that the Swedish embassy's rebuff was one of the reasons Solzhenitsyn never completed this major literary work...