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Nine months ago Sweden felt she could look on the swelling pride of Germany and Russia with relative complacence. She was the geographical centre of a ring of seven well-disposed, small, but collectively considerable, Baltic and Scandinavian States: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, Norway. One or another of them might be threatened, but it was hardly plausible that a nation ringed around with seven such neighbors would have to face the worst...
...submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona and Stockholm could do an invader much damage and hold up his attack. Eventually the Allies might be able to send aid through Narvik and Trondheim...
Torpedo-carrying planes claimed a German destroyer in Trondheim. A squadron of heavy bombers penetrated by night to a seaplane base on the Baltic, blew up a munitions ship passing through the Great Belt. But on the face of it the Germans had the advantage by air, with many more planes and with land bases on both sides of the 75-mile-wide Skagerrak...
...probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...
...other side of Europe Danzig fills with truckloads of Hitler's jaunty armed "tourists." German ships bring in harmless-looking cargoes-arms. Across the main square of the old Baltic port Propaganda Minister Goebbels trips like an absurd gnome in a great coat that reaches his heels...