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Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor (Camilla Wicks; Symphony Orchestra of Radio Stockholm conducted by Sixten Ehrling; Capitol). An ingratiating piece by the Finnish composer, played with warmth and vigor by a talented young (23) American...
...Code. He first worked as a spy during World War II, when he slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung on a wire...
Last week Johan Enbom sat in the witness stand in a Stockholm courtroom, the first of seven Swedes to go on trial for espionage. They had, the government charged, given the Russians secrets of Sweden's vital northern defense line abreast of Finland. Required to stand trial, though he had pleaded guilty, Enbom freely told the whole story. He had been sure war was coming, he explained, and it was his duty to "smooth the Red armies' path to liberate Sweden from the dreaded Western occupation...
...wave of cold anger swept across doggedly neutral Sweden, which stayed out of World Wars I and II and now refuses to join Norway and Denmark in NATO. The anger was aggravated by an event in Stockholm: the opening of a treason trial against seven Swedes who are accused of selling out the secrets of Sweden's entire northern defense system to Soviet espionage agents. On the streets and in the coffeehouses, Swedes muttered their indignation. Prime Minister Tage Erlander summoned Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Rodionov. As he left his own embassy, a crowd of Swedes jeered at the ambassador...
...interior shots are filmed in the Stockholm studios, but Reynolds makes periodic tours of the Continent, setting up his camera for exteriors of Parisian boulevards, Viennese squares, Berlin freight yards. He often shoots unscheduled scenes (e.g., Actor Thor bursting out of an ornate doorway and running up an architecturally impressive street, or Actress Scott dodging through the ruins of Hamburg) and then writes them into future plots...