Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Stockholm Nya Dagligt Allehanda reported that the German fleet in being included three capital ships and two aircraft carriers. Responsible British and U.S. authorities dismissed this particular report as a possible Axis plant. But they did not dismiss the threat, nor did they doubt that the Germans have a sizable naval force tucked away in Norway's fjords...
...Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...
When Reader's Digest editors several months ago decided to publish at Stockholm a Swedish language edition* called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (TIME, Feb. 1) they figured they would be lucky to sell 20,000 copies of the first issue. Optimistically, they decided to run off 75,000 copies anyway, just in case...
...significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...
Typical of the Finnish people's melancholy attitude toward their war with Russia was the comment last week of a Finnish soldier in Stockholm: "The Russians have killed our men, the Swedes have taken our children [for shelter during the war] and the Germans have taken our women and our country." President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest...