SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time

The average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium.

These are the conclusions of the world's leading anthropologists.

A Swede is one of the healthiest and handsomest physical types in the world. Politically and economically, he is mature, practical, cooperative. Psychologically, he is the victim of the national claustrophobia which torments all...

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