Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME (May 29), you publish an account of the conflict arising out of Sweden's ball-bearing exports to Germany and its repercussions in this country. While this article gives a very fair and impartial account of the matter it contains reference to me, personally, which, besides being grossly inaccurate, by implication casts unpleasant reflection on my name. You state that my "brother is a Swedish quisling." The fact is that I have only one stepbrother who never was even remotely connected with politics or in his personal sympathies in any way pro-Nazi...
...Hermann Göring. I am not in position to state anything regarding Eric von Rosen's political views, but I can state that he is in no way prominent in either Swedish politics or Swedish commerce; nor has he ever been leader, nor even a member of Sweden's very insignificant Nazi Party. In calling him a "quisling" I am sure that you are drawing wholly unwarranted conclusions from whatever information you may have received regarding...
Professor Sakimura quietly sent his wife to her parents in Holland. Quietly he boarded a plane for Sweden. In Stockholm he registered as a political refugee, accepted enough money from the Swedish Academic Political Refugee Committee for food, lodging, cigarets, paper and ink. He turned to the socialistic beliefs of his youth, began to write a book about Japanese cartels, mulled over plans for Japan's future...
...still has an ace in the hole. It can blacklist all U.S. companies with Swedish affiliations, which have some $125,000,000-worth of assets in this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...Netherlands signed postinvasion agreements with the U.S. and Britain. Russia signed only with Norway, an open hint that the Red Army might want to cross the top of Finland to carry on the war with Germany. It was also a suggestion that Russia, with belligerent Finland and Russophobe Sweden on her doorstep, wanted a long-term friend in Scandinavia. The Norwegians seemed willing...