Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans, the conviction spread that a fateful decision had been made and a great attack was impending; as the British-Italian trade agreement broke down; as Swedish public opinion split on the question of aid to the Finns and King Haakon of Norway hurried to Stockholm; as Premier Molotov in Moscow gave a three and one-half hour lunch to U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like...
...other obvious reason for Swedish nonintervention: Stockholm is within very easy bombing distance of Berlin as well as Leningrad. Last week a curious deal was reported arranged between Sweden and Germany. Premier Hansson's Government agreed to buy all the arms of Swedish make and pattern which Germany captured in Poland. Germans had no use for guns of a different type from their own. What made the deal curious was that the only imminent use Sweden could make of them would be against Germany's ally Russia...
...Nazis. In the East the Red Army moved ever nearer to Swedish soil and Finland's calls for aid caused serious internal unrest. In the West the Allied Powers actively questioned Scandinavia's interpretation of neutrality. "It is certainly darkening up here," observed the Stockholm Tidningen...
...Sweden had no doubt that the bombers were Red Army planes, although in Stockholm the Government was ready to believe that the Russians had simply made a mistake. In Moscow Swedish Minister Vilhelm Assarsson hurried to protest to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, fully expecting to get an apology similar to that offered when the Russians early this year mistakenly bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks. Instead, the People's Commissar flatly denied that Red aviators were responsible...
Indication of what other Scandinavians believed they were in for could be found elsewhere than in Copenhagen last week. At the Bofors armament works in Southern Sweden men worked day-&-night shifts building big guns, anti-aircraft weapons, bombs. And outside Stockholm at Aker, Swedish home of gunpowder, poison gas and gas masks, never before had there been such desperate activity...