Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These soothing words Sweden accepted with wry docility. Stockholm newspapers interpreted them as a polite way of saying that Sweden had entered "the German sphere of interest." Next day Stockholm police walked into the British Legation and seized a propaganda weekly called News From Great Britain which had been issued by Press Attaché Peter Tennant. The Swedes continued to arm-King Gustaf led his countrymen in subscribing $59,250 to a $118,500,000 defense loan-and to promise to defend their neutrality. But as long as Germany held most of Norway and made no aggressive move, Sweden...
...Expert for the press" in the German Legation in Stockholm is a Dr. Grassmann, who is often seen going from newspaper to newspaper with material. If an article is refused, the newspaper can expect the immediate cancellation of advertisements by German-owned firms and their Swedish branches. Germany's invasion of Norway failed to get the same vigorous condemnation in the Swedish press that Russia's attack on Finland received...
...Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden in ten years I hope to walk on German ground.'' Nobody objected...
...Last week crusading Editor Ture Nerman of the weekly Trots Allt ("In Spite of All") printed a list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland...
...home that he was unable to take his winter vacation on the Riviera. Last week he and the Crown Prince attended meetings of the Council of Ministers, which met nearly every day to discuss the growing threat to Sweden, but otherwise he was hardly seen in Stockholm. Once during the week his shiny old Cadillac rolled out from the palace overlooking the waterfront, and the King did some quiet shopping, stopped to see an old crony, then hastened to a Cabinet meeting...