Cinema: In Hot Water with Holden

The Counterfeit Traitor (Paramount). Oil, the Swedes remarked sadly in the fall of 1942, is thicker than blood. They were speaking of Eric Erickson, an American who came to Sweden in the '20s, did well in the oil business, took out Swedish citizenship. Then came the war. Erickson, like most neutrals, continued to do business with the Germans, but when he was put on the Allied blacklist his reaction was odious. He publicly insulted the country of his birth, openly frequented the German legation in Stockholm, made fulsome speeches praising the Führer.

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