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Many threatening things Per Albin saw as he prepared his speech to the Riksdag. For more than three years he had kept his country neutral while war raged on every side. Sweden's trade had been perforce with Germany and satellite Finland: her iron flowed steadily and uninterruptedly into German munitions plants. And neutrality had paid. Compared with the rest of Europe, Sweden had done well. Living standards fell only 15% by 1941, then leveled off. Military expenditures increased, but not to the point of taking the bread from Swedish mouths. While Norwegians across the mountains starved and bled...
...Albin saw the dangers. An advocate of moderation in all things, he made up his mind that now there was no room for moderation. When he raised his bushy brows to address the Riksdag last week no trace of the middle-of-the-road Social Democrat was left. Sweden would fight to the last man if attacked, said he. "Every order . . . that defense is to cease will be false...
Scandinavia. The Swedish Riksdag met in secret session for the third time since World War II began. Reason: conditions in Norway, where the German-controlled press was agitating for new Storting elections to depose King Haakon VII and set up a Nazi Government. Whether Norway would again be united with Sweden, or Sweden simply dominate Scandinavia under German direction, Hitler's Northern Union seemed destined to be realized...
...Furugärd and a slogan of "Sweden, Awake!" Later it merged with the larger National Socialist Workers Party founded in 1933 by Sven Olaf Lindholm, who likes to be called Sweden's Hitler. In the 1936 elections the combined parties polled 1.6% of the vote for the Riksdag. They have never won a Riksdag seat...
...ever surer sign that Scandinavia was in the middle of a first-class war of nerves was the flight of capital from Sweden. In two days 20,000,000 kroner ($4,760,000) left for safer refuge. To check this loss Premier Per Albin Hansson called the Riksdag into week-end session, pushed through laws forbidding the export of banknotes, checks, drafts, coins, bullion. No one could doubt any longer that Sweden, by helping volunteers to get to Finland, was "actively non-intervening" in the Finnish War more or less as Germany, Italy and Russia "non-intervened" in the Spanish...