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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...
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...
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...