SWEDEN: Sloppy

Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers.

Apparently the Baron, Chancellor of the Royal Masters Orders, had made a good thing out of orders turned back to the Swedish Crown by meticulous relatives after the demise of Swedish knights....

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