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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstrations on Norwegian Independence (Eidsvol) Day as the North has never seen since Norway broke away from Sweden in 1905. Norwegian flags sprouted from Swedish flag poles. The Royal Opera gave a special performance of Peer Gynt. Crowds cheered the John Steinbeck play The Moon Is Down. In the Stockholm Concert Hall, Professor Nils Ahnlund promised that soon "the trolls will be hunted back into the woods." Then he spoke a truth that all Swedes, regardless of any onetime admiration or rationalization of Naziism, now freely admit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...TIME last week a correspondent in Stockholm cabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Minister and Career Diplomat Christian Gunther and the Social Democrats find common ground. The latter most fear the Communists. . . . Fear of Russian intentions after the war is a dominant note as an Allied victory seems more certain. . . . The situation would be worse were it not for the presence in Stockholm during the past decade of one of the most remarkable, yet little known, figures in Europe: Alexandra Kollontay, Soviet Minister to Stockholm and first fully accredited woman diplomat in modern times. One of the last of the old Bolsheviks except Stalin, her very existence is miraculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Like Babe Ruth, gaunt and gainly Gunder Hägg has become popular with Swedish newsmen because of his ability to call his shots in advance. Last summer, during a track meet in Stockholm's Stadion, he announced that he would break the world's record for the mile the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Visiting Fireman | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Amateur Athletic Union, eager to have Hägg match strides with Super-Runner Gregory Rice in the national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Visiting Fireman | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

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