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> "Expert for the press" in the German Legation in Stockholm is a Dr. Grassmann, who is often seen going from newspaper to newspaper with material. If an article is refused, the newspaper can expect the immediate cancellation of advertisements by German-owned firms and their Swedish branches. Germany's invasion of Norway failed to get the same vigorous condemnation in the Swedish press that Russia's attack on Finland received.
> The Swedish-German National Association, supposedly a non-political society, lists among its members many Swedish leaders, including the brothers General Henri de Champs and Vice Admiral C. Léon de Champs (retired), Explorer Sven Hedin, wealthy merchants, publishers, officers. Dr. Hedin, though one-fourth Jewish, is a good friend of Adolf Hitler's, says he likes the Nazis because his books sell better in Germany since 1933. At a dinner in Stockholm's gaudy Grand Hotel in 1938, over which Explorer Hedin presided, Nazi Franz von Papen said in a speech: "When I come back to Sweden in ten years I hope to walk on German ground.'' Nobody objected.
I. G. Farbenindustrie has a powerful hand in the Swedish chemical industry. One of its directors, Dr. Max Ilgner, has a Swedish wife, himself speaks fluent Swedish.
The physician-in-chief to the garrison at Gotland is a known pro-Nazi.
> At least one justice of Sweden's Supreme Court is a Nazi.
> Last week crusading Editor Ture Nerman of the weekly Trots Allt ("In Spite of All") printed a list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland.
Furthermore, Editor Nerman took pains to point out, the wives of many naval officers are German, including the wife of Rear Admiral Claes Lindsström, commander of the Eastern District. Admiral Lindsström served in the German Navy from 1910 to 1912, was naval attaché at Berlin and Copenhagen, 1917 to 1919.
Said a Swedish official in rebuttal: "We know that some young members of the Navy have been Nazis, but they are being watched. . . . Admiral Lindsström is a Swede who will obey his King." With Norway as an object lesson, Sweden has at least had an opportunity to prepare against a Nazi Fifth Column.
Dynasty. Sweden's 81-year-old King Gustaf, whose tennis-playing year after year so amazed Europe, is no longer as hale as he once was. The problems of the Russo-Finnish war and the growing threat to his country's independence have aged him. This year, for the first time in many a year, things looked so bad at home that he was unable to take his winter vacation on the Riviera. Last week he and the Crown Prince attended meetings of the Council of Ministers, which met nearly every day to discuss the growing threat to Sweden, but otherwise he was hardly seen in Stockholm. Once during the week his shiny old Cadillac rolled out from the palace overlooking the waterfront, and the King did some quiet shopping, stopped to see an old crony, then hastened to a Cabinet meeting.