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...answer is "mostly from Stockholm"− for Sweden is so close to the heart of Hitler's Europe that, when the wind is from the south, people there can sometimes smell the smoke of burning Berlin. And always there are hundreds of travelers and fugitives who have just seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears what is going on across the Baltic...
...TIME has posted one of its most experienced foreign correspondents in Stockholm: John Scott, who knows first-Scorr hand every country of occupied Europe except Norway and Greece-speaks Russian as well as he speaks English, knows German, Spanish and French, and is now fluent (if not always grammatical) in Swedish...
Sweden is as near to Germany as New York is to Boston-or Chicago to Detroit-so it is small wonder that there are so many people in Stockholm with firsthand news from the Reich...
...fact," Scott writes, "the biggest problem' is to find out whom you can believe. Many people here have intimate and reliable contacts inside the German blockade and can provide direct, fresh information. But Stockholm is also rife with rumors and rumormongers who come to me with fantastic stories of intrigues and escapes-advice, warnings and obscure mutterings of all kinds...
...could be proved that germs reach the earth from other planets, scientists would be very much surprised. But last week scientists were considering the idea. Professor Louis Backman of Uppsala University, Stockholm, a pharmacologist and medical writer well known throughout Europe, had suggested that it was entirely possible that organisms causing recent flu epidemics had come from Venus, Jupiter or Mars...