Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irrevocably and finally" instructed him to vote against the admission of Germany to a permanent seat on the League Council unless Brazil is given now a similar permanent seat instead of the non- permanent seat to which she was elected for a year (TIME, Oct. 5) together with Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay...
...forth in TIME last week although not then agreed upon, it was that Sweden and Czechoslovakia should resign their Council seats, after which the assembly should elect Poland and "a neutral" (The Netherlands) to fill, these vacancies. That Sweden and Czechoslovakia should have been brought to offer such a sacrifice well illustrates the very real desire for compromise among the nations...
Died. H. R. H. the Dowager Queen Louisa of Denmark, 75, widow of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, mother of King Christian X of Denmark and of King Haakon VII of Norway, daughter of King Charles XV of Sweden and Norway, great-granddaughter of the delectable Désirée Clary (the daughter of a French banker) who charmed Napoleon and married his most fortunate Marshal, Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, later King Charles XIV of Sweden and Norway; at Copenhagen, after a long series of illnesses...
...Unden (Sweden) reaffirmed his well known position "taken on principal" that Germany, as a "Great Power," should alone be admitted, at present. He made it clear that he would use Sweden's vote to kill the candidacy of any other nation...
...students of the neutral countries, the campaign to create a better spirit of cooperation and to reconciliate the students of the ex-belligerents, began almost immediately. The C. I. E. Congress at Prague in April 1921 saw the admission as full members of Denmark, England, Finland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland and Yougolavia. During the following three years the spirit in the C. I. E. was completely changed; the controverseries were more or less settled...