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...Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden...
...delay, no substitutes, heavy, meaty, buttery meals in abundance. The Government fell with a thud the moment we arrived in Paris. Conversation at dinner stuck to who would be who next day. All were for Reynaud except Henri Bernstein, who considers him a man of such value that his premier-power should be kept for a tougher time...
They go to bed early, the theatres start at 7:30. Henri Bernstein's Elvira is first class and a big success, though those few rich pacifists are afraid it may irritate Hitler...
...West. Before the French and British Embassies in Brussels, students paraded, carrying banners that said: "VIVE LA FRANCE!" "VIVE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE!" At night columns of Belgian troops clumped along mined roads, across barricaded bridges, toward Liege and the German frontier. Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak called in Allied diplomats to deny that Germany had presented an ultimatum demanding Belgian neutrality, to reaffirm that Belgium was neutral anyway-until Belgium or The Netherlands was invaded. Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Henri Denis told correspondents: "If any invader sought ... to cross our territory, he would find there only slim advantages...
Active new Premier Paul Reynaud last week ordered Minister of Interior Henri Roy to get ready a decree making any further Communist or Nazi agitation in France punishable by long imprisonment or death. Police said current Red propaganda in France almost exactly duplicates Nazi propaganda urging the Allies to make immediate peace. Sensation of the Paris trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies (TIME, April 8) was a declaration by the chief defendant, Communist Florimond Bonte. He said that he and his fellow prisoners "deserved well" of France for urging prompt peace with Germany on Adolf Hitler's terms...