Word: teborg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona and Stockholm could do an invader much damage and hold up his attack. Eventually the Allies might be able to send...
...printed a list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland...
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German military authorities let Correspondent Stowe send one dispatch out of Oslo by radio. (Next day the official Moscow radio quoted his story.) Then Leland Stowe fled the city. From Göteborg, Sweden, at week's end he reported his escape, reported from his own observation that German columns were pushing out from Oslo in all directions. In Stockholm, two days later, he told the whole fantastic story of Norway's occupation...
Fear of German reprisals drove a group of Göteborg shipowners to issue a public protest against Editor Segerstedt. In an effort to bridle his tongue, they invited the Government to indict him. Newsmen in Sweden were taking bets last week on how long Editor Segerstedt and Sweden's press would last before censorship got them under. Segerstedt wrote each day's column as if it might be his farewell to Swedish journalism. Said he, one day last week: "We haven't much more prestige to lose in Britain, France and the U. S. In these...