Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finland last week hinted that it was ready to call it quits against Russia, cease being an unofficial Axis ally. Feelers in the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter and the Finnish press were followed by an official Finnish radio broadcast of newspaper editorials. The gist...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...
...visit sent a ripple of alarm through United Nations capitals. What Hitler almost certainly wanted from Mannerheim was joint German-Finnish offensive action soon, probably against the Murmansk railroad, perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
...shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take in 40,000-ton battleships...
Unofficial reports, he said, such as those emanating from Stockholm, Sweden or Berne, Switzerland, are usually dictated by wishful thinking and are thus often unreliable. Von Hartz believes that the American people can take all the bad news that the newspapers dish...