Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superstate. The organization will lack all the essential attributes of sovereignty. It professes to be "based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states." Not all its members are as "peace-loving" as non-members Sweden and Switzerland; the "equality"of the members is far from perfect; but nobody can deny that their "sovereignty," especially that of the big nations, is rigorously observed...
...neutrals-and through Professor Shapley, who has collected and distributed astronomical news in a mimeographed Monthly Astronomical Newsletter, edited by crack Harvard Astronomer Bart J. Bok. Shapley also has a well-organized worldwide system for telegraph reporting of spot news; Germans cable their discoveries to Harvard via Denmark and Sweden...
...humanity there would be long, cheerless months, even years ahead before they could "open the rusted doors with the rusted keys." The physical task of moving the 15,500,000 foreign civilians and war prisoners out of Germany would have to await peace and some kind of order. In Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere, thousands of earlier refugees awaited repatriation. But sooner or later they would get back; sooner or later political Europe would feel their impact...
Most Swedes would frown on the idea of declaring war on Germany now. But it would be no breach in the nation's 130-year record of neutrality if, after military operations are terminated, Sweden's army should undertake some police operations -such as clearing Norway of the remaining German divisions, which will then be classed as bandits...
...Rhode Island's Camp Endicott, Jim ("Iron Mike") Rafferty ended a perfect, ten-race season (including three wins over Sweden's Gunder Hagg) by winning the three-quarter-mile special. He watched bespectacled Haakon Lidman jack up Sweden's sagging track reputation by lowering the 15.8 world record for the 110-meter high hurdles by 1.4 seconds...