Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Membership. Cordell Hull's beloved phrase, "peace-loving states," stayed in. Such nonmember neutrals as Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal, such former Axis satellites as Bulgaria and Rumania can come in only when the Security Council recommends their admission and the General Assembly approves. Members may be suspended but not expelled. Withdrawal is neither provided for nor for bidden (any member could resign from the League of Nations...
Prince Carl Johan of Sweden took a firm step forward in the footprints of his cousin, the Duke of Windsor: the 28-year-old Prince was well aware that he could never ascend the Swedish throne if he carried out his vow to wed Kerstin Wijkmark, 35, a once-divorced commoner and editor of The Weekly Review, a publication specializing in cheesecake and syrup...
Bishop Berggrav first used his famed persuasive powers on his own guards -and converted them. This enabled him to move outside his cottage. He then ran the underground church through a coded information system which cobwebbed Norway. (He corresponded regularly with Bishop Gustaf Aulen in Sweden, signing his letters "Dr. Kattman" and discussing religious subjects in medical language.) Exactly three years from the day he was interned, Bishop Berggrav escaped with the aid of his chief guard (TIME, May 7). He boarded a train for Oslo, got off a few stations before the city, was met by Swedish Consul Leif...
Countess, Clausewitz & Tsar. Hornblower's new job was no less than to persuade Russia, Sweden and Prussia to join the war against Napoleon. The best way to persuade them, Hornblower decided, was to show the neutrals what the Royal Navy could do. French warships were soon frantically scuttling to safety. When they kept to the open sea, Hornblower's seamanship outmaneuvered them, his broadsides raddled them; when they holed up in neutral ports, Hornblower's bomb-ketches lay outside and .lobbed immense mortars onto their decks...
...admiration. Influential Russian Countess Canerine, whose "dark and liquid eyes" burned with "consuming fire," decided that Hornblower's manly chest was the place for her "bosom white as snow." Prussian Strategist von Clausewitz deserted from Napoleon's Prussian army, and learned, from Hornblower, what strategy really meant. Sweden joined the Allies. Tsar Alexander was so encouraged that he sent Napoleon a rude letter - which, of course, resulted in the march on Moscow...