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Opening in Stockholm last month, John Steinbeck's anti-Nazi, inferentially Norwegian The Moon Is Down proved such a smash that it speedily moved to a bigger theater. Swedish critics, speaking of evergrowing Norwegian resistance, praised Steinbeck for prophetic insight, remarked that The Moon Is Down is truer today than when it was written...
Last week the Stockholm Nya Dagligt Allehanda reported that the German fleet in being included three capital ships and two aircraft carriers. Responsible British and U.S. authorities dismissed this particular report as a possible Axis plant. But they did not dismiss the threat, nor did they doubt that the Germans have a sizable naval force tucked away in Norway's fjords...
...Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...
When Reader's Digest editors several months ago decided to publish at Stockholm a Swedish language edition* called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (TIME, Feb. 1) they figured they would be lucky to sell 20,000 copies of the first issue. Optimistically, they decided to run off 75,000 copies anyway, just in case...
...significant was the inability of liberty-loving Social Democrat Vainc Hakkila, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, to form a coalition government. Hakkila was one of the chief exponents of an early peace with Russia, and a Cabinet headed by him might well have included Juho Paasikivi, onetime Minister to Stockholm and Moscow, who has the confidence of Joseph Stalin, and may yet be available for negotiations...