Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson, a scholarly Southern bachelor, had plugged along through 27 years of foreign service in both Latin America and Europe, was U.S. Minister to neutral Sweden during World War II. In the past two years as deputy U.S. representative in the U.N. Security Council, Johnson has tangled time & again with the U.S.S.R.'s Andrei Gromyko...
...compared with 86% of U.S. adults who have heard of the Marshall Plan (according to a current Roper Survey), the international survey found the following numbers familiar with the plan abroad: France, 90%; Sweden, 85%; Britain and Switzerland, 80%; Italy, 74%; U.S. Zone of Germany...
...only to those who had heard of U.N. (from 94% in Sweden to 49% in Germany...
...hotting up its propaganda barrage against Scandinavia. In Moscow, the Red Fleet accused Swedish General Helge Jung, commander in chief of the Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...
...Sweden, the influential daily Dagens Nyheter came out with a proposal that neutrality-minded Swedes would not have dreamed of a few months ago-Swedish military cooperation with the Western powers. In Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer...