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...Rudolf Hess visited Stockholm, ostensibly to enroll support for Hitler's war plans against Russia. For several years Hermann Göring was a regular guest at Castle Rockelstad for Nazi powwows with his first wife's brother, Count Eric von Rosen. In 1936 Swedish police arrested eleven Nazi agitators, ousted three. In retaliation Germany kicked three Swedish businessmen out of Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Since the war began spying has multiplied. Last month Stockholm police arrested four German-born Swedish citizens for forwarding information about Narvik iron shipments to Germany. Three of them were sentenced to hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...sergeant in the Army. A sporty-looking character who somewhat resembles an intelligent football player, he makes no secret of the fact that he considers himself the personal representative of Göring in Sweden. More than once he has stood for an hour straight-arming before the Stockholm statue of the great Gustavus Adolf us (who overran Germany in 1630-32) while comrades paraded behind him. Once he was asked at a public meeting what he would do if Germany invaded. "I will not be provoked," said Sergeant Lindholm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Torsten Kreuger, brother of the late gross match king, owns two important Stockholm dailies, Aftonbladet and Tidningen. Torsten Kreuger hates all those who helped to strip him of Ivar's properties, believes the House of Morgan is a hive of Jewry, means to get even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sweden on the Spot | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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