SWEDE N: The Well-Stocked Cellar

From Sweden, prosperous neutral in two world wars, determined abstainer from Europe's common effort to ward off a third, TIME Senior Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald cabled:

IN Stockholm, beneath a quiet house, there is a deep, vaulted cellar, where candles substitute warmly for the sunlight. This is a favorite refuge for Swedes, not from bombs, but from the menaces of life in general. Rich, excellent food is served, limited only by the lack of imagination in Swedish cooking; beer flows from great casks, unfortunately diluted by edict of a government which believes that drinking can be curbed by alcohol-content laws.

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