Word: teborg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Individualist. One Swedish journalist who has stubbornly resisted regimentation by Nazi imperialists is Torgny Segerstedt, editor-owner of Göteborg's famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion...