Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Doctrine was concerned with U.S. opportunities, there were plenty of places to begin. Scandinavia had not sounded any alarm yet (though Russia has tied up Sweden's economy in a five-year trade treaty). The Dutch had not collapsed yet, though they faced a double calamity-loss of Indonesian trade and breakdown of business with Germany. Belgium was a highly bankable risk...
...Sweden's King Gustaf, 88, home from ten weeks of embroidery (instead of tennis, by doctor's order) on the French Riviera, was looking sharp as a needle...
...Swiss are practiced observers of the world scene and, perhaps through wishful thinking, are optimistic over the ultimate future of Britain and France. They might be likened to a small marathon runner poised at the starting line while the bigger fellows argue and go through setting-up exercises. Sweden, of course, is having 'Russia trouble,' and wishing it were just a bad dream...
Cause & Effect. It all happened because Canada could not do enough for her little girl. Two months ago, when 18-year-old Barbara Ann came triumphantly home from Sweden as world's figure-skating champion, home-town Ottawa rolled out the royal carpet. The Governor General's Foot Guards Band played the music; Cabinet Ministers rallied round; kids were let out of school. Then His Worship, the Mayor, fumbled through his welcoming speech-and gave her the auto, the gift of her fellow citizens. Nobody complained at the time that amateurs were not supposed to accept shiny...
...uniform law. Under present U.S. law, says he, the male tends to get the notion that the important thing is not to get caught. If he becomes a father, he can rationalize his act by saying that he was hooked by the machinations of a scheming woman. In Sweden, where the state is concerned only with the father's responsibility to contribute to his child's support, unwed fathers are much less jumpy...