Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advice for Stalin. By early July 1945, having broken the Japanese "purple"' code, the U.S. knew of Japanese peace feelers to Switzerland, Sweden and Russia. At mid-month, when the Allied Big Three assembled in Berlin's satellite city of Potsdam, Stalin solicited Truman's advice about how to answer a peace-seeking note from Tokyo. Their conversation was recorded by U.S. Translator Charles Bohlen (now Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter), who took down sketchy notes, expanded upon them just last spring. "Stalin inquired of the President whether it was worthwhile to answer this...
...Jewish emigrant to Sweden, 37-year-old Journalist-TV Producer Leiser made the film to answer "the questions of German young people" from whom, in his opinion, much has been veiled by the "unsatisfactory, evasive, shamefaced answers of parents and teachers." In eight weeks, nearly half a million people have seen Mein Kampf in West Germany. (It is also set for distribution in East Germany.) Audiences, in the main, consist of people under 40, and the popularity of the film tends to contradict the notion that West Germans are unwilling to concern themselves with the facts of the Hitler...
Drottningholm's theater was first the plaything of Lovisa's son Gustaf III, founder of Sweden's royal institutes (including the Swedish Academy, which serves today as jury for Nobel Prizes in literature). Gustaf filled the place with musicians, staged four performances a week, wrote many of its plays and opera librettos himself, even starred in some of its productions. Shortly after his reign, the theater was abandoned, and for 120 years, says Director Gustaf Hillestrom, it remained "a sleeping beauty...
...Pages call the audience to attention with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...talent scouts range the country to seek out new voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...