To Sweden the 108-year-old Goteborgs Handels-och Sjojartstidning (Trade & Shipping Gazette) is what the Manchester Guardian is to Britain: a provincial paper that ranks above most metropolitan dailies because of its liberal, democratic traditions. White-haired Editor-Owner Torgny Segerstedt is famed among Swedes for his lyrical prose, his analytical mind, but most of all for the deadly sarcasm with which he attacks all enemies of Sweden's stubbornly free press.
Ever since World War II first loomed on Sweden's four horizons, such Nazi journals as the Hamburg Fremdenblatt have waged a savage campaign of abuse against the Gazette and its owner. Rumor said last...
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