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CRUSH IN SWEDEN

By Eddie Gilmore

Stockholm, capital of Sweden, like so many other places in the world, has more people than it has place to put them.

This is particularly true of hotels, trains, passenger ships and trans-Atlantic planes.

When Mexico's new Ainbassador to

the Soviet Union, L. S. Ponton, paused here until he could get ship to Leningrad, he slinred a single room without bath with his military attache for four days. He finally gave up and moved 22 miles away to a country hotel.

One of Stockholm's papers had a picture of an old resident of the Grand Hotel, sleeping on a cot in I know an auxillary eating room. of a visiting Canadian who, with his wife and grown son and daughter, occupied one room until his plane 5.15,teft for London.

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THONY QUINT

A former member of the American Embassy Staff in Russia, on his way home to the United States, got only a part of a tourist class cabin.

Papers headline a story of the plight of several hundred Swedish students unable to get rooms,

DATELINE -CELL 27 Ciano's 'bluff

THE CIANO DIARIES, pabllahed

in the United States (Double- ciuy) Aro the most fascinatini entertaining and turid glimpse to for provided Into the mind of tho war-makers and the pathological dynamism of the dictatorships.

Men, not devoid of cunning and animated by motives of the purest selfishness, arc-before our eyes. Lik half-pushed and half-enticed wards the abyss, aware always of the inner voice whispering that it Is the abyes.

Ciano, the diarist, is writing "for the recurd," for history. Writing to re- show that he, at least, had no

catos- sponsibility for the Italian trophe. This weight must be put Into the balance against his words. DREAMS OF GLORY

1

unscrti-

of

THE self-portrait that he paints is

one of a singularly pulous man. with a modest, Ineffec- tual strain of decenes, hot-headed, yet not devoid of superficial acumen,

romantle

f sensu wit with humour, an Italian nationalist with few illusions about his countrymen, a maker of the Axis who hated the Germans, n devout, yet sometimes clear-coded admirer of his formid- father-in-law Mussolini. In able short, a man who combined in his ele- own person the Incompatible

des- ments of Fascist Italy which troyed it--and him.

that flopped'

Tho diaries of Mussolini's son-in-law give 'the most fascinating glimpso so far into the mind of the war-makers." This book, which has been called "an important historic document," is here reviewed by

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMPSON

The Big Noise-This was Ciano at the peak of his career-as

Foreign Minister.

In August

+

WIS--Or 1930 Clano

Central figure of the tragle-comedy is the Duce. A man of vigorous fathomicss mind, pithy speech and cynicism, with enough coinmon sense to be a wit but not enough to be free from the dreams of glory, the delu says he was shocked to discover stons of grandeur, the slabs of thut, while he had been playing a Jealousy. A baritone of Italian opera pretty game of bluff, his German who wandered into a Wagnerian partners were serious. Ribbentrop, with that curious glitter in his pale drama where the orchestra played on

blue eyes, told him: "Germany no cannon.

longer.

new ern of

The monarchy, too, was to blame,

'empty baggage cars which too often have their brakes on," The Church was equally guilty, defeatist and anti-nationalist. To show his con-

i tempt for It, he insisted on working unusually hard on Christmas Day. Ciano plaintively protested that the Italian people in spile of their super- Gcial contempt for the, Church, were at heart quite "religious.

DOTING DUCE

HIE Italian middle classed were

THE

To feeble that, said Mussolini, It When' the he had only realised it before, he Churchill Govern- would have made a revolution for ment was formed, surpassing that of Lenta. Clano records that

the news was re-

colved in

But. in the end, the truth, went Italy home, the Italian soldiers did not with absolute want to fight. They were not na difference, by the good as in 1014, I was a bad nd-' Duce with irony.

The

significance vertisement for Fascism, the Dver of the event com- nimitted.

pletely cscaped

those

realists.

The

were

acture

From this realisation may be dated

Murgolini's stomach trouble and also Italians the development into

nn absurd singularly doting of his affair with Clara Petac- 11-Informed about

British affairs., a good. girl whose family were, Clana does not according to Ciano, crooke and black- even mention the mallers. decisive German

defeat in

chol

Battle of Britain. Ribbentrop ex plained it by bad

weather.

During the London bütz, there was not a angle Italian spy in Britain, although the Germans had mary, including one agent who sent out 29 radio messages a day from London.

There was also, and ever incres- Germans. dingly, trouble with the With the oflcer of Kesselring's' who, on the telephone to Berlin called the Italians "Macaronis," With Goering, whó behaved with incredible con- descension and arrived wearing a Great sable coat "something between a motorist of 1000 and a high-grade / courtesan at the opera." And with the German non-commissioned off- cers who broke into a house at Fog- IANO dressed himself in his gin saying to a man about to get military uniform to hand the into bed, "We have taken pos- session of, France, Belgium, Holland ard Poland. To-night we are going to take possession of your wife." To which the man replied, "You can take pussession of the whole world but not of my wife, I am a bache- lor."

Ambassador. It

is

the

wants Danzig or the TELEKI JOKED In 1939, when the dlary opens, Corridor. We want war!"

For Mussolini, a the world was still a fine place for those Italian adventurers. Britain torment began with the first German them. Air Chamberlain, victories. To be outshone was bad courted visiting Rome in January, discussed enough. To be made to look ridl-declaration of war to the French

part of the Jewish question with the Duce, culous--he who had preached war to

the Italians for 18 years--it was engaging fatuity of the man that he saying that if more Jews came to

reports. without any understanding Britain he feared

in an incretise

intolerable. anti-Semitism,

of Its irony, the Frenchman's remark to him, "Don't get yourself killed." Mussolini's views on this subject

would have were simple. He

no Sweden is enjoying a terrifle eco- nomic boom. Her factories are work-Jews in Ethiopia. Only in Brazil, the United States or Russia could There is no un- ing full speed.

on employment. The proposed 1,000,- they be settled, preferably as

ro-independent State. 000,000 Crown credit to Russia pro- mises even more work. Labour getting restive and there is talk in many quarters of demands for wage in the Daily Express by Lord Forbes, Waiters and hotel work-uli of idiotic commonplaces" about

ECONOMIC BOOM

Inarcuses.

is

He fretted and raged rounding on

led-a the people he

favourite subject for the contempt of

dictators: The Italians are a race of sheep. Eighteen years was not enough change them. It takes maybe 180 centuries. To make a people grent It is necessary to send them Into The cordiality of the visit was battle even if marred for the Duce by an article in the pants+ou have to kick them

ers already have notified their em- the Italian people's dislike of Axis ployers' they want to talk about a new pay scale.

politics.

in

the

Count, Teleki, the Hungerlan, to asked him one day: "Do you knew how to play bridge?" "Why?" asked Ciano. "For the day when we are together in Dachau," replied the EDDA hid it

Tu mark their displeasure the Gernins smashed all the furniture.

was

Prince

the German camp itself there was plently of trouble, Bismarck, counsellor of the German Embassy, romarked at his chief, Rib-

牮

Hungarian.

Teleki and Clano There might be small picking for

never met in compared Dachau One committed suicide. Italy. But how petty with Hitler's giant coups!

Besides, The other was executed, us the months passed, the fear grew that Germany would turn on After the inglorious stab in the bentrop, "He is such an imbecile he: ally and seize Trieste, grab back back to France which. Mussolini at that he is a freak of nature."

take.

In the

an Italian Mussolint the South Tyrol, perhaps year ATER

As the months passed, the only 1. visited the Fuehrer, the last whole of north Italy. To rush to the first pretended

victor might be "breakthrough," the war assumed ut

for the Italian light in Mussolini's life apart from meeting at which the Italians met rescue of the

danguided might be waren.

but to watch Germany curious dualism

that shed by. "the Pelncc!"--was afforded by the Garman disasters in Russia. But a day came when even this consolation was probably inade- It was all too clear that the Basclat twins, children of political and moral decadence, were racing quate,

towards the same disaster.

Germans on equal terms.

To hear certain members of the JODL SLEPT government talk, Sweden is on the brink of her greatest industrial perlod in her history. They belleve she can take over Germany's place as the great European producer.

But where is she going to put the workers necessary for all this ex- pansion?

talk about The same authorities priorities for housing these workers, and the presumption is that this will be put through, but scepties shake their heads.

BOTTLENECK

This fell short of full enjoyment because of the excessive boredom which Hitler imposed on his guests. As Frau Goebbels sald, "He can be Fuchrer as much as he likes, but he always repeats himself."

In March 1940, Mussolini, on his statesmen.

One side was pleasant, and quite way to meet Hitler at the Brenner, had a dream which, he said, tore the unreal. A sham Hallan Empire in

from the future. More and vell more he fell under the Fuehrer's Europe was inflated, with Albania as fascination. More and more, was he the first member. ready to listen to those interminable The other side of the war Was grim. Defeat after defeat, humilia- diyan.horangues.

on upon humiliation in Libya, the Mediterranean, and worst of all, in Greece.

Jodl fell asleep. on 11 Kellel with superhuman efforts kept counted his eyes open, Mussolini the minutes and the hours on his | wrist watch.

ta

Soon he was saying the Allies

It was a disaster in which almost have lost the war. We have no time

every prominent figure on Ciano's stage was to be engulfed, himself to lose. And even Grandi, who had American and British business men

among the earliest. The pages he expressed his shame about a pro-

Mussolini denounced the general wrote from Cell 27 of Veroon Gaul are here by the hundreds, They

Axis speech in London, which an demand and expect the best hotel

Yet there was, even then, a more inmate of a Catania asylum offered "I am given hopeless material rooms and service, and usually get humun side to Hitler. Her name to turn into verse for-100-lire, was work with. One commander-in-do not lack dignity or courage.

tune: was Sigrid von Lappus, 20 years old. changing his them. A casual visitor on his way

"We should chief hid himself in a shelter 60 ft His wife, Eddo, concealed the diary observant Clano to some place invariably gets caught The

reported admit we were wrong in everything deep. Another spent his evenings, under her skirt and reached Swil- in this Swedish bottleneck.

Rela-

"beautiful, quiet eyes, regular fea- and prepare ourselves for the new in the crisis of the Greek campaign, zerland. So was this document saved composing musle for the Alms. from the Gestapo, and for posterity. times ahead." large numbers of Americanstures and a magnificent body."

birth or ancestry here on the way to Helsinki to see relatives they have not seen since before Finland's first war with Rus- sia. The ships to Finland are Jam- med, and in order to accommodate the many travellers ships' officers re- gularly give up their quarters.

are

People on their way to and from Norway get caught in the crush, but everyone seems to get bedded down Rome place, eventually, There are no stories of people walking. streets or sleeping in the railway stations, but they do bunk in hole! tobbles.

the

These people seem to place more

eating 'emphasis on sleeping than because the restaurants do not seem unduly crowded.

Everyone seems optimistic about Sweden. However, when anybody asks: "Say, I've got a friend coming

Commencing To-marrow: 'APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE' in next week; do you know where

1 might get him a room?," everyone shakes his head.-Associated Press.

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Fertilisation

For More Fish

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1046, by Ely Culbertson)

".

All experts, but relatively few that he could afford to open the bid- average players, appreciate-and | ding, to rebid lightly, and even to trade upon the "auperiority of the reach the three-level without being spade sult." Observe to-day's deal:

West, dealer

Both sides vulnerable

East-West 60 on score

NORTH

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Thus, it should be observed that

the opportunity of im South had proving his position solely because his meagre values included posses- sion of the spade sult, rather than any other sult. That, he did not suc- cced was due only to his bad luck

weakest of the Anding North the

this Controst other three, hands. opportunity, with the situation that would have obtained if the hearts and spades had been transposed in every hand. With six hearts headed by A-10-0, leaving the possibility

was ding!.

Details of an interesting ex- periment in marine fertilisation, have recently been published in

South did not make his three- that the enemy could mention spades, Britain. It was shown during

spade contract he went down. n. and cheaply, South would have been Investigations carried out attrice but this was relatively unim- badly advised even to open the bid- Loch Craiglin, a small arm of portant. The Important fact Loch Sween, in Scotland from 1942 onwards, that the addition of sodium nitrate and super- phosphate to an enclosed sen lake results in a raised produc- tivity of fauna.

Another similar experiment in the same region resulted in the extreme- ly heavy settlement of the common mussel at the head of another armi of Loch Sween. Conclusions of thu Investigators are that future marine fertilization experiments will have to be carried out in deeper waters to which flatfish tend to move during their offshore

migrations. Thus the prospect is opened

ned up of Increasing

ing productivity in the open waters of the sea. It would be a project which could only be taken up. on n national and perhaps, ultimately, international scale.

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