International: Burglaries & Fires

Russia last week was hotting up its propaganda barrage against Scandinavia. In Moscow, the Red Fleet accused Swedish General Helge Jung, commander in chief of the Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists."

In Finland, closest to the heat, two members of the...

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