Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story's fabrication came about as follows: one dull night the British Air Ministry got together some of the invasion-attempt rumors which had originated in Stockholm, Lisbon, Berne, "and perhaps Chicago and points west," and released them for publication-assigning the date Sept. 16 to Netherlands sources...
...their interest was turning to guns which could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafés lost them, and Nazi soldiers mysteriously murdered at night were always found minus rifle, side arms and ammunition. Stockholm's Dagens Nyketer reported from Oslo that Nazi arms were disappearing so rapidly that it was necessary to place special guards around supply dumps and ships...
...Stockholm, Sweden, word was received from Oslo that Nazis, who once banned and damned the Nobel Peace Prize had, by invading Norway, probably won the Nobel foundation's funds...
...Hollow-cheeked old Gustav V rode out to Stockholm's stadium, warned 30,000 holiday-making Swedes: "The danger is not past. ... I therefore exhort you not to relax." >Bitter, broken and bewildered, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, brooded in his castle at Laeken, on Brussels' edge. Execrated by his allies, who were not to be placated by the restrained comments of the British Prime Minister, repudiated by his own Government, by his overseas empire, by approximately one-third of his eight million people (fled to France), by nearly every important personage of his country, Leopold...
Died. Karl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, 80, Swedish poet and novelist, Nobel Prizewinner (1916), who revolted against literary pessimism, wrote nationalist epics (The Charles Men) glorifying war; in Stockholm...