Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that judgment can only read: " 'Sweden failed. She failed democracy's case; she failed a brother in the hour of distress. She failed her historic obligations and failed her own future.' " Even more outspoken was a pamphlet written and published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than the suppression of Finland. . . ." A Russia with an Atlantic seacoast, and thus a potential sea power, is something...
...last several weeks dynamic V. A. Tanner, Foreign Minister of Finland, has made several hurried trips to Stockholm, where he has had long talks with Swedish Premier Per Albin Hansson...
...France, and according to most versions, got a promise of one Frances' division of skilled Alpine Chasseurs and two other Allied divisions. But there was a hitch. The only practical way for Allied troops to get to Finland lies through Norway and Sweden. M. Tanner returned to Stockholm and applied for free passage. It was a perfectly legal request: Article XVI of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to which Sweden. Norway and Finland belong, specifically provides for such help for a victim of aggression...
Foreign Minister Tanner flew to Stockholm to beg two divisions from the Swedes. The Swedes refused...
Ever since the rise of Adolf Hitler, Germany has been throwing knives at Sweden's press, bludgeoning at Swedish officials to make them muzzle the newspapers. Prince Viktor zu Wied, German Minister in Stockholm, calls almost daily at the Swedish Foreign Office to complain about news stories, editorials, advertisements (even in remote provincial papers) that might offend delicate Nazi sensibilities...