Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden last week took a long step away from the dogged isolationism that has kept her out of the 20th Century's two great wars...
...recently as last September the Swedes were resolutely avoiding any approach whatever to the joint defense of Scandinavia. Last week, however, Sweden's Defense Minister, Allan Georg Frederik Vougt, was in Oslo, Norway's fog-shrouded capital, to discuss with his Danish and Norwegian opposite numbers the beginnings of military collaboration-standardization of arms and training. The fact that the Norwegians and, to a lesser degree, the Danes, looked on Scandinavian defense as a part of Western European defense made Sweden's presence all the more significant...
...expected Sweden to plump immediately for full cooperation. Norwegians and Danes were looking forward to a time when, as one observer put it, Sweden's power could be folded into a West European defense system "carefully, like the beaten white of an egg into a cake mixture...
Ingrid Bergman, whose eleven years of marriage (to a surgeon) stand as an example to Hollywood, made a little visit to Sweden-her first trip home in nine years. Romping about with husband Peter Lindstrom, she was caught in a snapshot (see cut) that would make a fine travel poster-or even a yeast...
...Sweden's King Gustaf, 90, played host to 18 guests at his annual two-day shoot in the royal forest. On the go ten hours a day, the king shot four elk. Score for his guest of honor, Norway's 45-year...