Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In Denmark King Christian and Queen Alexandrine were bedridden, and in Spain 200,000 politically less important people were afflicted...
...Thank God there is no prohibition in Sweden."--William, Prince of Sweden...
...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...
...Thank God there is no prohibition in Sweden...
Finally Sir Austen Chamberlain was hampered in making concessions by a curious hue and cry that British industry languishes while German workers are busy turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen...