Word: vilhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...
...Sweden had no doubt that the bombers were Red Army planes, although in Stockholm the Government was ready to believe that the Russians had simply made a mistake. In Moscow Swedish Minister Vilhelm Assarsson hurried to protest to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, fully expecting to get an apology similar to that offered when the Russians early this year mistakenly bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks. Instead, the People's Commissar flatly denied that Red aviators were responsible...