Word: sven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rafts died of their wounds. Their comrades buried them in the sea. After five hours a ship throbbed near through the night. They signaled it with torches. It was a Swedish freighter, one of the convoy coming back. "They did so well for us," explained Sven Olander, "I did not want to leave them there...
...WANDERING LAKE-Sven Hedin-Dufton...
...Wandering Lake. In 1933 Sweden's famed Explorer Sven Hedin was hired by the Chinese Government to explore the Silk Road, ancient caravan route of Marco Polo fame. Purpose: to build a motor highway connecting Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) with Soviet Russia. (Completed in 1938, this 2,000-mile highway soon became one of China's two last links with the outside world.) The Wandering Lake is Sven Hedin's third book to result from that 1933-35 expedition (others: The Flight of the Big Horse, The Silk Road...
...Sweden, Göring's man Sven Olaf Lindholm was at last reports still at large...
...Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden...