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False Hopes. Last week, three days running, Erik Boheman of the Swedish Foreign Office called Soviet Ambassador Mme. Alexandra Kollontay in Stockholm to tell her that the Finns would form a new government any minute now and please to remain close to the phone. As the Finns continued to fumble, the Swedes' embarrassment became more & more acute, for they are almost as anxious as the Russians are to get the matter settled. The Russians, watching Finland writhe, her defensive positions shattered, a large part of her army knocked out and her politicians still arguing about a new government...
...Zarubins will occupy 20 of the 32 rooms in the Embassy building, which was once the mansion of Ottawa's lumber and railroad heir, the late John Frederick Booth (father-in-law to Erik, Prince of Denmark). The U.S.S.R. bought the vast pile when Ottawa and Moscow re-established relations two years ago. To the huge reception rooms, socialite Ottawans flock for the capital's poshest receptions...
...Guide far the Bedevilled Author Hecht (Erik Dorn, Gargoyles, Afternoons in Chicago) has followed Tante Chasha's advice. It is one of the most ferocious attacks on anti-Semitism ever written-and the first to be written by a Jew of Ben Hecht's literary conspicuousness...
News that TIME'S first European edition would be published in Stockholm has been greeted with tremendous enthusiasm by the freedom-loving people of Sweden. Words of welcome for the new edition range from the restrained "most significant" of famed builder Erik Fernström to the ringing acknowledgment of General B. G. Nordenskiöld, Chief of the Swedish Air Force, who calls TIME-in-Sweden "a landmark in transatlantic communication...
Sixty-four-year-old Foreign Minister Erik Scavenius, whose signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact in Berlin last week provoked the Copenhagen riots, is Adolf Hitler's most efficient tool in Denmark. The son of a Court Chamberlain, he made his youthful diplomatic debut in Berlin, first became Foreign Minister in 1909 when he was only 32. Since then he has been Ambassador to Italy, Austria and Sweden, a leader of the pro-German Radical Party. Last July he organized the Danish Free Corps to fight Russia...