Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall of the Realm in Stockholm's royal palace, the two houses of Parliament waited. The royal brass band struck up the Song of the King. In walked an old gentleman as precariously thin as a Nordic Don Quixote. He bowed right & left, then took his seat on the ermine-draped throne, beside a taboret bearing the crown which he had never actually worn (he disapproves of elaborate ceremonies). Then Gustaf V, King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends, began his speech from the throne. It was a comfortable occasion. His Majesty had delivered substantially the same...
Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
Police and doctors told the rest of the story. Capocci was a balloon vendor who had lived in Stockholm for 19 years. He was mad. Ten years ago he tried to see the Italian minister (one of Ricci's predecessors), was received only by a clerk. He never forgot the slight...
...staff was forbidden by occupation directives to share food or give American gifts to Japanese. In Moscow, where rationing had ended, John Walker had assembled a Ukrainian doll for his infant daughter, a clockwork tank for his young son and, weather and the news permitting, planned to fly to Stockholm to be with his family. Overshadowing the Cairo bureau's festivities was the fighting in the Holy Land. Bureau Chief Don Burke's family had a Christmas tree and all the trimmings and hoped he would be there to enjoy it, but chances were that he would...
...Home in Canada after six months journeying in Britain and Europe by car, I want to thank TIME for being in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Paris, the Riviera, Genoa, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - keeping us informed not only of the events we were seeing but also of what was happening in the rest of the world where we weren...