Word: stockholms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could be learned at Stockholm, Finland was promised no armed support in case she has to fight, but the Three Kings joined with President Kallio in an earnest and hopeful 25-minute broadcast from Stockholm...
Haakon VII of Norway thanked Sweden's Gustaf for calling the Stockholm parley, declared: "The cooperation and friendship of our States should be a model for the world...
...saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders in the U. S. for war planes...
Bernadotte served for a time as the Governor of captured Hanover in Germany and buttered up influential Swedish officers taken prisoner during Napoleon's campaigns in the North. In 1810 the weakness of Sweden, together with the sudden death of the Swedish Crown Prince, emboldened a Stockholm Court clique to propose that one of Napoleon's marshals be sounded out as to whether he would accept election as heir to the Swedish throne...
...over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament and responsible Ministers...