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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Bernadotte de Ponte Corvo has skilfully conserved for more than 100 years under five bourgeois and uniformly popular kings: Karl XIV, his only son Oscar I, his eldest son Karl XV who left no male heir, and his brother Oscar II, father of the present Gustaf V...
...from fewer than 4,000,000 to over 6,200,000-almost as many people as live in London or New York City. The Swedes have devoted their whole toil and savings during this period to peace and social progress, eschewing the waste of war. As a child, Gustaf V was sent to a Stockholm private school and his then reigning uncle, King Karl XV, was engaged at this time in shepherding a gradual constitutional change, whereby effective political power in Sweden later passed safely from the Crown-which had enjoyed autocratic sway-into the hands of the elected Parliament...
...years later Gustaf V came to the Throne, but refused to be crowned and Sweden was spared the expense of a Coronation. On State occasions the crown rests on a settee beside the Throne. Most historians agree that the 32 years of His Majesty's reign constitute the period of "Modern Sweden." In 1909 a severe financial crisis was followed by a general strike in Sweden, but this stopped just short of revolution and since then the people have increasingly been Kingsmen...
...People v. Politics. The Swedish people, as understanding Gustaf V likes to emphasize, have a national talent for what has been called "mass individualism." In the early years of his reign Swedes got the idea that Capital with its trusts and combines was milking the People with artificially high prices, but the Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their...
...reached Rotterdam that evening, and after spending the night at The Hague and one on board the Dutch steamer Batavier V, left Rotterdam in the early hours of Thursday morning, the sixth of September. We arrived at Gravesend about six p. m. that evening...