Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These students come from all the western nations: Belgium, Holland, Austria, Germany, Great Britain, France, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, and Greece--and from others outside the Marshall Plan: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Finland, and Republican Spain. Six Displaced Persons complete the roster, which was to have included Poland and Bulgaria, too, until last-minute difficulties kept their students away...
...pier watching the proceedings were two UNSCOP members, Chairman Emil Sandström of Sweden and Yugoslavia's Vladimir Simic, a Communist statesman who has an eye for drama and knows a cue when he sees one. "What can I think of all this?" asked Simic, pointedly pious. "It is the best possible evidence that we can have...
...Sweden, the middies had shaken hands with spry old King Gustaf. They watched goggle-eyed on the beaches as buxom Swedish lasses publicly doffed their clothes to slip into scanty bathing suits in full public view. Later, a Swedish hostess was dumfounded when the adaptable middies, invited to take a dip in her private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling...
French delegate Alexandre Parodi suggested that the commission should be limited to a smaller "neutral" group of seven countries--the six non-permanent members of the Security Council and possibly Sweden...
After ten weeks in Russia, TIME Correspondent Samuel Welles went on to Finland and Sweden and, without censorship, reported...