Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even increase and strengthen the differences and controversies which divided the former belligerents. At the Congress of Strassburg the National Student Unions of Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Roumania, Spain and Tchecho-Slovakia were registered as full members, and the representatives of America, Denmark, England, Greece, Holland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and Yougoslavia as free members...
...great a part this moral motive played in the foundation of the European student federations I can demonstrate best by citing the example of the student organizations of the neutral countries. Switzerland, Holland, Denmark and Sweden did not need any organizations for economical reasons. There has been no economical debacle there and if they felt the consequences of the financial disaster in Europe it was not in 1919 or 1920 but later, and certainly not so strongly as Germany or Hungary. Nevertheless in all these neutral countries there grew up a strong centralized student body, and you will agree with...
...streets of Oslo (the capital) completely unattended, sometimes even escape being recognized by their subjects for hours. King Haakon's elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark, adopts only a slightly greater reserve toward his subjects when he and Queen Alexandria drive about Copenhagen. At Stockholm, Queen Victoria of Sweden often amiably looks on while King Gustaf V plays tennis with Swedish army officers, or with almost anyone to whom he happens to have taken a fancy. Therefore, Scandinavian newspapers noted with calm approval last week that when H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Duke of Skane...
...sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...
...costs in lives 10,000 horses, 100,000 men. As Peter takes possession, the Swedes attack. Peter beats them at Poltawa and they flee to the Turks. Peter follows, is surrounded, nearly annihilated. Then he and Katharina overcome their enemies. Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, Karelia. the Ukraine are Peter's. Sweden, Poland, Turkey are humbled...