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Trolls in the Forests. Outward appearances last week placed the Swedes closer to a break with Germany than at any other time during the war. Sweden's stubborn insistence lifted a paralyzing four-month ban on overseas shipping through the Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
...Sweden's neutrality will get its final test. If the Swedes refuse and Germany attacks Sweden, then, and only then, will Sweden go to war. The Swedes say that they will refuse further concessions and if the refusal means war, Ja Visst is all right with them. A stubborn neutral is getting...
...thought the job would be easy. The Fortress was, as the Russians could see in the stubborn Kuban, as the Allies had found in slow Tunisia, a tricky thing...
Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
...boards and beams, along the beaches." This was taken to mean that evacuation was at hand. But correspondents on the spot thought not. They could see the beginning of the end, but the end of the end was hidden on the opposite slopes of some very steep and very stubborn hills...