Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bonn had failed to make good on its threat, a score of nations ranging from Sweden to India would surely have followed Tito's lead. This would have given the East German regime a new diplomatic respectability, which would reinforce Russia's crafty argument that the way to reunite Germany is not by nationwide free elections (in which the Communists would be overwhelmed) but by some kind of deal between the Bonn government and East Germany's puppet rulers...
Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...
...consider it unthinkable that the Swedish church will one day ordain women priests." But he added that the admission of women ministers must come as a result of whole hearted approval by the clergy, not because of political pressure from Parliament. He questioned whether many of Sweden's women wanted to become ministers anyway, noted that in Denmark, which has permitted women clergy since 1947, only four have been ordained (in the U.S., the Northern Presbyterians and the Methodists, among other denominations, have ordained women). Perhaps, said the archbishop, Sweden could follow the example of Finland, where women serve...
Continuing Vigil. To some economists last week it seemed that inflation in the U.S. was just about licked. Noting declines in industrial expansion rates and stock-market prices in the U.S., Sweden's Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told the World Bank-IMF conference that the U.S. "has arrested its inflation" (see BUSINESS). And Harvard Economics Professor Sumner H. Slichter, a "limited inflationist," noted critically that in putting "stability ahead of growth," the Eisenhower Administration had made "the most important economic decision since the Roosevelt Administration decided to aid workers in bargaining with employers...
Last week, as it came time to elect a Secretary-General for another five years beginning next April, Bachelor Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden was the only candidate for the world's most prestigious and lucrative ($55,000 a year taxfree) civil service job. Though the Russians had been peeved over his role in the U.N.'s handling of the Hungarian revolt, everyone acknowledged that this reticent and precise diplomatic technician, who never exceeds his authority but never hides behind its limitations if he sees a way of being useful, had done a good job in a frustrating position...