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Thus protected by her two big Baltic neighbors-from each other as well as from the Allies-Sweden showed how completely she was trapped by strengthening her defenses against attack by way of Ally-held northern Norway. Said one Swede close to the Government: "It appears we can expect nothing from the Western Powers...
Said a Swedish official in rebuttal: "We know that some young members of the Navy have been Nazis, but they are being watched. . . . Admiral Lindsström is a Swede who will obey his King." With Norway as an object lesson, Sweden has at least had an opportunity to prepare against a Nazi Fifth Column...
...Lord Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...
...only railroad of any size owned and operated by the U. S. Government* is the Alaska Railroad, 500 miles long, finished in 1923, running from coastal Seward to the biggest city in Alaska's interior, gold-mining Fairbanks (pop. 2,101). A dour, 69-year-old, spectacled, Republican Swede named Otto Frederick Ohlson is its top man. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who has jurisdiction over A. R. R., does not oust Ohlson from his $14,500 job because in eleven years Republican Ohlson has reduced its annual operating deficit from $1,000,000 to the break-even...
...presence of Swede Broberg two flights above the pool cut both crowd and interest at the meet to a minimum. Ed Hewitt's win over up and coming Dave "Torpedo" Van Vort in the quarter provided the evening's best race...