Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, however, word came from Stockholm that a Swedish scientist had been building thermal diffusion tubes expected to speed up U-235 production 11,000 times, when he was stopped by the war raging around his beleaguered country. In the U. S. Gano Dunn, president...
...Hagen, wife of the U. S. Naval attache in Stockholm, landed in Manhattan carefully carrying a pouch which she had been told contained the ashes of Captain Robert M. Losey (U. S. attache killed in Dombas, Norway during a Nazi air raid). Opened, the pouch was found to contain affidavits of Losey's death, nothing else...
...What has happened fills us with horror and sorrow. . . . Neutrality as such is no defense in these times. We have no illusions. ..." So spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion...
...oldest enemy in Europe. Through the good offices of Berlin a Swedish trade commission arranged to go to Moscow, where the Swedes will be petitioners for some of the commerce they sorely need now that the Nazi seizure of Norway has them boxed in the Baltic. In Stockholm preliminary negotiations for a trade treaty with Germany were completed, to be resumed later in Berlin. This arrangement gave the Germans time to increase their demands, the Swedes time to reflect on their new status in Europe...
...Tolischus' work sufficed to win him not only a Pulitzer Prize but enforced rustication from Germany. Long under fire from Nazis, he went to Stockholm. Last week he was given eight days to wind up his Berlin affairs...