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SWEDEN TAKES STRONG STAND AGAINST AXIS

DESPITE THE CONCENTRATION OF NAZI TROOPS NÈAR THE BORDER AND OFFICIALLY INSPIRED WARNINGS THAT COUNTRIES NOT POLITICALLY SYMPATHETIC WITH THE AXIS PROGRAMME CANNOT EXPECT A FAVOURABLE COMMERCIAL POLICY FROM BERLIN, IT IS LESS PROBABLE THAN EVER THAT GERMANY

IN WEARING OUT WILL SUCCEED

THE SWEDISH PEOPLE BY THREATS.

Sweden's present foreign policy may be charac- terised as part of her military policy. Sweden now is in a position to offer such resistance to a possibly planned invasion by Nazi forces that, though she is encircled by Germans, it would not be an easily won blitzkrieg. This is one of the main reasons for the reaction of the Swedish people against the Nazi menace in the last few months.

the

the Soviet Union seemed to offer To a great extent it is the atti- tude of the American people, the an opportunity to make up for the loss of the Western comingree determination to help Great Bi-

decrease It some measure and ta bang about Fuchere Adoll Hitler's defeat which accounts for proportionately the economic de- However, newly regamer spirit inpendence on Germany Sweden There almost everybody i in spite of all her efforts to de- counts on active help from the velop her trade within the block- United States and expects that the ade, Sweden is facing a reduction. war will be decided in the Atlan- of more than 45 per cent of her

President

has; normal exports before the war. Roosevelt become, to many of the Swedish | peop e, a symbol of democracy

fac.

See Scandinavian Union

but

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The best evidence of the shift

The food situation is serious, in Sweden's "real" policy to au

critical. There is active neutrality is given by the daily newspapers, All agree in shortage of tea, coffee, cocoa, soap and similar products. The efforts uncompromisingly sharp denoun-

government and cement of Nazi Germany. Recent of the Swedish articles in "Svenska Dagbladet." British authorities to facilitate the conservative and or of Sweden's, importation of foods finaly were In principle the Bri- finest papers, and "Dagens Nyhe- successful. ter," leading liberal paper, pay tish authorities have consented to patience let Ave Swedish ships a month tribute to the heroism, and iron toughness of the English pass through the blockade. people. Press and radio no longer for are favouring consideration German reaction.

Sympathy For Norway

inde-

Beautiful Ceorgia Carroll, formerly An ace John Powers model and- called "the most photographed girl In New York,” is featured in the lavish new musical, “Ziegfeld Giri.”

ours

been

Perhaps this attitude had decided upon long in advance, as inevitable in view of the country's weak military resources and its exposed geographic situa- tion. "The Danish policy is not Sweden has a national de- fence organisation and we intend to use it for the maintenance of our independence,

difficult position which the Danish nation now finds

showing the itself, quali'ies of an old civilisation. For this rear on Denmark can never

Just be

to Scandinavia. The

the

it is

in

best

Sweden, too, is making plans for post-war times. The majority special Danish individuality cun- trans- not be extinguished or Swedish of the

people bc-

formed, Both in its cultural and new. lieve that there will be a social-minded, democratic world its foreign policy Sweden counts under the auspices of the Unit-on Denmark as a free and in-

dependent Scandinavian country. ed States and Britain. At the anniversary of the un-

The organisation of an

For the present the attention nexation of Norway, a memorial vertice was held in the Kungsholm | pendent Scandinavian federation of the Swedish pub'ic is directed- Cathedral in Stockholm with re-falsa is part of Swedish political chiefly presentatives of the Alies present. plans This has been indicated by The papers gave expression to the former Minister Unden, who has hope that Norway would stand up sand again as an independent and free. country. The Nazis were sharply a lacked in the argan of Sweden's avast powerful political party, the

Stenaldemokraten,”

A further symptom of the change in the attitude of Swed Ish authorities are the large collections organised in behalf of Greece.

One rest of recent economic threats uttered by Dr. Paul Wal- Trade ter head of the German Delegation in Stockholm. was a sharp protest written by the well known economist Professor Bertil Ohlin. In this article he asked whether it would not be the task of Britain and the United States

toward Norway. Behind the Quisling regime stands the army of occupation as the only *

s for its existence, Swedes and Denmark "Temporarily

and Norwegians, however, will be de- on each other in the Nurway have lost their indeper- pendent

been in the future as they have detre In Denmark there was no attempt

to resist the aggressor. past."

PARSON HITS OUT

AT CHILDLESS

COUPLES WHO MARRY with the intention of

to reorganise the economic order having no children were criticised by the Rev.

of the world.

The former Foreign Secretary of Geoffrey Pedley, vicar of St. Thomas's, Coventry.

Sweden. Professor Oesten Unden, in an answer to the authors of pamphlets favouring a Swedish "Anschluss" with the Axis. said plainly that such a step could not even be considered.

The small groups of Swedish Nazis led by Sergt. Lindholm and Dr. Ruetger Essen now hold their meetings in strict seclusion. Since the annexation of Denmark and Norway Germany has lost many of her Swedish adherents.

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“Burden” On Young

when they insisted оп knows day "Every parish priest

before marri- there are far too many cases in absolute chastity

married

avoid age. which

couples parenthood," he told the Leam- Festival of the Ington Deanery Mothers' Union.

"We are, off course, living in abnormal times,

times but in normal

I had no hesitation in saying to young, couples who came to me to be married, that the first baby should come within the first year of marriage.

"I also said that benefit they could

child upon their

the greatest then confer was not to

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It had to be remembered that an economic system which com. pelled a large number of youngTM folk to postpone marriage until they were nearly thirty placed upon them

a burden which God never intended them

bear.

to

The fault, he said, lay in our toleration of a social and economic Christian public have removed

provide it with useless luxuries, system which Sweden's internal situation is or an expensive education, but opinion should influenced to a great extent by with those brothers

It is vitally important to em-

"To suggest that the marriage relationship, both in itself and lovely thing is a point which appreciate," sald young people phasise to-day that marriage Mr. Pedley

himself is Mr. Pedley father of four marriages on couples a year..

an

the

He. children.

average 100

+

and sisters, long ago. the economic crisis which is one from whom it is to learn its arst of the consequences of the block priceless lesson on how to live in in what it leads to, is a holy and ades, and the loss of the United, a community. States and Britain as markets for Swedish goods. It is aggravated

should lead to a family. by great sacrifices for rearmament

"Am I narrow He declared: which, however, have the full approval of the entire population, minded in suggesting that in such Because of the extraordinary ex- cases young couples should not Church's blessing on penses of rearmament in the bud- ask the get, an expenditure of $337,500,000 their union?, for the ensuing fiscal year was "Young people are insistent provided, which later was increas-upon: sincerity in these days,' ed to $600.000,000. This is the but is it sincere to go through service, with its equivalent of one-fourth of the the marriage. national income..

prayer for the blessing of chil- Sweden's foreign trade is largely dren, when there is every inien dependent on Germany, Ger- tion of preventing · that, prayer, Frank Dexter, an Englishman of many's share of Sweden's foreign from being answered?" trade, according to estimates for Mr. Pedley said that people in Houston, Texas.

In America men are usually 1941 by Swedish economists, is were asking a hard thing of a about 70 per cent. Trade with vast number of young people to buried in their best suits:

LEFT CLOTHES TO ENGLAND

"Bury me in my pyjamas and send all my other clothing to the homeless of Britain," whispered seventy-seven, from his deathbed.

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