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...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...
Arvid Fredborg is a young Swedish journalist who represented Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet in Berlin from February 1941, to the end of May 1943. Behind the Steel Wall was written from private notes just after the author had quit the Third Reich following a series of discreet warnings from his friends. His book, in easy, gossipy pages, presents the most up-to-date picture of Germany from within. It is the picture of a war machine that is being run without provision for maintenance. It is coughing and bucking, and a couple of broken pistons are gouging into...
...Svenska Gallup Institutet (Sweden's Gallup Poll) quizzed Swedish radio listeners, found that: 34% believed what they heard in British news broadcasts; 4%, German; 1%, Russian. A cautious 18% believed none. The rest expressed no opinion...
...Svenska National-Socialistika Parti (Nazi Party) existed in Sweden as far back as 1930, with a leader named Birger Furugärd and a slogan of "Sweden, Awake!" Later it merged with the larger National Socialist Workers Party founded in 1933 by Sven Olaf Lindholm, who likes to be called Sweden's Hitler. In the 1936 elections the combined parties polled 1.6% of the vote for the Riksdag. They have never won a Riksdag seat...