Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More Voice raised last week on the subject of war economy was that of Benito Mussolini (whose country is rapidly becoming a clearing house for the foreign trade of other neutrals, even as remote as Norway and Sweden). Boomed Benito...
...Airplanes, parts and motors from planemakers: United Aircraft, $70,000,000; Curtiss-Wright, $60,000,000; Douglas Aircraft, $30,000,000; Lockheed, $6,000,000; Republic Aviation, $4,000,000. Big buyers: France and Britain. Little buyers: Sweden ($4,000,000), Iraq...
...Rickard Sandler declared flatly that "if the Finns agree to present ports to the Soviet Union this would signify the end of Scandinavia!" The Pravda headline over this was Hypocritical Political Game Of Certain Swedish Statesmen. Russian press and radio charged that Britain and France were egging Norway and Sweden into egging Finland into disastrous truculence. "During the Tsarist regime Finland was completely subjected to Russia," snorted Pravda. "Then, Swedish statesmen never muttered about danger for Sweden, but cringed and groveled in every way before the Tsarist Government!" They now have a chance to do the same before Joseph Stalin...
...Into the Panama Canal Zone went the British cruiser Despatch with news that somewhere in the Caribbean last month she had overhauled the German tanker Emmy Friederich, carrying 40,000 barrels of Mexican oil and quantities of provisions, ostensibly bound for Sweden but more likely for a sea-raider rendezvous (TIME, Oct. 30). When Despatch's men boarded her, Emmy's men opened her seacocks, scuttled the prize. Despatch passed through the Canal into the Pacific, perhaps to chase the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, which was believed to have rounded the Horn. Two German freighters which had taken...
Ominous in Swedish eyes was the fact that Mme Alexandra Kollontay, the Soviet Minister to Sweden, suddenly was called to Moscow. The world's first fully accredited woman diplomat, Minister Kollontay has had 16 years' experience in Scandinavia. Handsome, spirited, cultured, fashionably dressed, Mme Kollontay has long been an exquisite hostess whose invitations were eagerly sought. More than anyone else, this talented revolutionary-turned-diplomat, daughter of a Tsarist general and a part Finnish mother, would be able to tell Negotiator Stalin just how solid Scandinavian neutrality was, just when and where the Scandinavian countries might fight...