Word: svenska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden, Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet wondered tearfully "how a little country can hold itself alone in an evil world." In Istanbul, the daily Cumhuriyet sighed: "All we can do is pray to Allah that he grant some wisdom to humanity...
...month-old Prince Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus, the dead Prince's son and next in line for the throne. Only the week before, Prince Carl had made his first official appearance when he granted audience to a French envoy and accepted a gold tumbler. Said Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet approvingly: "Carl Gustaf acted with extreme dignity...
...recent years Flagg has feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...
...diplomacy turned the heat on Sweden and Spain last week. The flame burned hottest on Sweden's giant SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken), which supplies huge quantities of ball bearings to Germany's war machine. The U.S. had turned up the torch because the Swedish Government still declined to abolish these and other shipments (notably iron ore) to Germany, still insisted that a recent reduction was all the Allies should expect...
Startled Sweden. Hemmed, trade-conscious Sweden received its warning with a surprised gasp. Giant, Swedish-owned SKF (Svenska Kullager-fabriken) has had its Schweinfurt and Paris factories blitzed by American bombers; but others, in Sweden, kept on turning out ball bearings for the Nazi war machines. Swedes had thought that their iron-ore and ball-bearing trade with Germany had U.S.-British blessing; both Allies approved the revised Swedish-German trade pact last January.* If deprived of U.S. gasoline Swedes would suffer, but not so much as if they gave up German coal. Likely Swedish answer: a pained, determined...