Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changed everything. The overworked boys in the German Propaganda Ministry, shipping outworn drivel about Polish atrocities, felt its influence. Russians behind their frontiers watched their new German friends approaching, mobilized, advanced with full arms to meet them (see p. 28). At Copenhagen the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of Sweden, Norway and Denmark hastily met. The wool-importing firm in Amsterdam, driven to the wall (see p. 19); the Greek Permanent Under Secretary of State flying to Rome; the correspondent in Turkey writing feverishly of "a situation baffling to the keenest-minded diplomats"; the Canadians, at first indifferent...
...Sweden, anticipating the blockade, had stored two-year supplies of fats, fodder, fertilizer, but forgot gasoline, prepared to substitute charcoal gas generators for gasoline motors. Booming were iron ore shipments to Germany; hard hit were Swedish sawmills and pulp mills whose chief customers were British. Closed were big wood products factories on the Gulf of Bothnia. But Germany was trading coal from newly-seized Polish mines for Swedish fish, berries, iron...
...Premier was convinced, "our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will display its combative might," and Russia was still neutral. Notes saying the same were handed the diplomatic representatives of the U. S., Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Finland, Bulgaria, Latvia, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Rumania, Lithuania, Norway, Hungary, the Mongolian People's Republic, and the Tuva People's Republic...
...counter-blockade at sea of war munitions and other supplies destined for Allied ports in neutral vessels. With none of his Navy except perhaps 25 submarines outside of the Baltic, this action was a fairly empty gesture except as it affected Scandinavian shipping. First to feel it was Sweden's paper-pulp industry, whose big customers are British newspapers (see p.19...
...Irving's six factories-at Buffalo, N. Y.; at Glendale, Calif.; at Fort Erie, Canada; at Bucharest, Rumania; at Stockholm, Sweden; at Letchworth, England-Irving's 2,000 employes were sewing on silken war orders. Airmen of 45 foreign countries now ride on Irving silk-even the Germans who confiscated an Irving plant and bought its patents three years...