Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great timber, pulp, ore and shipping industries Swedish capital, while not operating under laissez-faire conditions, is given a fairly free swing to charge what the traffic-mostly foreign-will bear. Last year Swedish exporters of forest products and iron and steel did a $300,230,880 business, keeping the foreign trade balance weighted toward Sweden...
...press and radio is active and absolute, was a bland attitude toward Britain of "business as usual" taken by the Soviet Export Corp. The keen Bolshevik traders who run this big business saw merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease...
...were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure of four Danish ships, three carrying butter, eggs and bacon to Britain, one timber to The Netherlands. These seizures, which would never be paid for in real money, were gross violations of Germany's reiterated promise to let Denmark trade freely with all belligerents...
Economically they are almost as dependent on Germany as they are on Britain and France. Next to Britain, Germany is the largest buyer of Danish butter, eggs and cattle. From Norway, Sweden and Finland, Germany buys ores, whale oil and timber, supplying them with machinery, chemical goods and ships. In the last war the northern neutrals got rich, all except violated Belgium. And Germany would have been strangled economically if it had not been for shipments from Scandinavia...
...with Great Britain, not with France, but with Germany. Germany would give the Soviet Union seven-year 5% credits amounting to 200,000,000 marks ($80.000,000) for German machinery and armaments, would buy from the Soviet Union 180,000.000 marks' worth ($72,000,000) of wheat, timber, iron ore, petroleum in the next two years. And at Monday midnight the official German news agency announced from Berlin...