Daily Post - 11.05.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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D *ILY POST
ia published by
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Editois. S. Benediktsson.
A. L. Merson.
Offloe: 12, Austurstræti. Tel.
3715. Reykjavík. Printed by
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Tuesday, May llth, 1943
Reykjavík
Letter
SAUSAGE BARROWS
The Fisheries Bank, whose
building is in Lækjartorg, has
writtep to the Town Council
requesting that the sale of sau
sages from barrows be forbidd
en in Kolasund, the lane just
behind the bank. The Council
has asked the City Engineer to
find a more suitable place for
the sale of sausages.
PRICE OF CINEMAS
Following on the Town Coun
cil’s decision to buy the Gamla
and Nýja Bíos, the owners of
the two cinemas have had them
valued, and have now infor-
med the Council that the price
of the Gamla Bio is 2,700,000
krónur and of the Nýja Bío
roughtly 1,500,000 krónur.
Furnishings are included in
the cost of Nýja Bío, but projec
tion apparatus etc is not inclu
ded in the cost of Gamla Bío
and is estimated to cost 100,000
krónur in addition. The oCun-
cil will now have to decide
whether to accept' these offers.
FENCE ROUND DOCKS
The press reports that the
idea, which has often been dis-
cussed, of fencing in the har-
bour area, has now been taken
up again, following a letter
from the U. S. Legation to the
Harbour Directors. The Town
authorities have approved the
project. It is stated that the
Harbour Directors and the Mili
tary Authorities will jointly
decide the location and con-
struction of the fence.
AKUREYRI PROTESTS
The Town Council of Akur
eyri has passed a protest, say-
ing that important Government
announcements, which have
been published as advertise-
ments in the Reykjavík press,
have not been advertised in the
Akureyrj press.
Rajrmond Clapper
Writes From Sweden
Stockholm, May 5.
IN THE Operen Square across from my hotel window I can
see the statue of King Charles XII of Sweden, with his arms
extended and his sword pointed eastward toward Russia. For
two and a half centuries the Swedes have remembered this
national hero who led them in their brave but disastrous cam-
paign against the Russians.
America
Says ......
It is perilous and undesirable
to hate too much, we are being
warned by eminent psychoio-
gists. Yet surely, in these days
of rationing, it must be equally
undesirable to like too much!
* # *
Headline in New York Tim
es: ”Funk predicts Seizure of
German Capital”. As soon as it
ripens to a deep enough yellow?
* * *
Thus the traditional Swedish
fear of Russia has deep roots,
but I think that since EI Ala-
mein the Swedes have been
convinced that the Allies would
win and that the majority of
the people of Sweden want
them to win.
STALIN’S MAY lst ORDER
Recently there has been some
fear that Russia and Germany
might make a separate peace.
German propaganda has been
playing on that fear and caus-
ing increasing anxiety here.
Hence, Stalin’s May Day adop
tion of unconditional surrender
as Russia’s objective brings a
sense of relief among many
here.
Fear of a separate peace has
been voiced by the newspap-
er Social Demokrate, the org-
an of the Soc. Democrats, who
contral the government. The
Soc. Dem says that res-
ponsible opinion in Germany
now expects the war to end
in a German victory. It says
that the third Reich, while surr
endering the hope of an absol
ute victory, now aims at a
separate, Russo-German peace,
and that this is reflected in the
German press.
GERMAN PROPAGANDA
German propaganda is active
here under the direction of
Hans Thomson, former Nazi
minister in Washington, now
Minister to Sweden. The Ger-
man legation, which directly
faces the royal palace, flies the
Swastika from the mightiest
flagpole on the embankment
here. The establishment is
sup]30sed to have a staff of bet-
ween three and four hundred,
although many of them are not
listed as officially connected
with the legation.
ATTITUDE TO NAZIS
It should not be inferred
that the Swedish government
is especially lenient or partial
toward the Nazis. All Americ-
ans I have talked with are
warm in praise of the attitude
of the Swedish people and offi-
cials, and consider that here
they are among real friends
who want to see no separate
peace and want to see an alli-
ed victory.
Sweden knows now, that so
long as there is no world s -.. ir
ity, she is in danger. That was
the burden of the May-day re
marks made by Premier Hans-
son. As leader of the Social
Democratic party he has long
been a pacifist, and opposed to
military expenditures. But
during the last few years he
has had to reverse his position
and take measures to provide
for the defence of Sweden,
which are now considerable.
NEUTRALITY NOT
PACIFISM
Sweden’s position now, as
authoritatively stated is this:
She will try to continue her
neutrality, in order to stay out
of the war. But this does not
mean that Sweden will neglect
her rights and obligations just
for the sake of peace. Premier
Hansson says that the Swedish
defence force is prepared to
intervene when it may become
necessary, and to use weapons
to meet acts of violence, so that
Swedish neutrality may be res
pected. That remark is plainly
addressed to Germany as a re-
sult of the recent firing by Naz
is on a Swedish submarine. As j
Hitler no longer signs army
orders, London discloses. His
pen must have run out of inkui
tion.
* * *
“It is a dangerous practice
to transfer comercical canneá
foods into glass jars”, house-
wives are warned by the De-
partment of Agriculture. Some
of it might get spilt, of course.
one Swedish official here said
to me: ”Sweden has learned to
live as a small power. That is
a different thing from trying
to live as a big power.”
The old trouble that has pla-
gued Europe has been the att-
empt by small countries to be-
come bigger, to scheme and
plot to go to war to gain more
territory. They have not learn-
ed the lesson that Sweden has
learned. It was learned here in
a very hard way years ago
when Sweden dreamed of
being the giant power of the
North.
Sweden was a warliké nati-
on for centuries, fighting al-
most constantly with Russia,
Poland or Denmark to domin-
ate the Baltic and the North.
King Gustavus Adolphus,
Sweden’s greatest hero, was
killed in battle in Germany
and King Charles XII conqu-
ered Denmark and Poland and
invaded Russia.
But over a period of years-
Sweden gradually found that.
wars did not pay, and that
there was another way of exi-
stence possible, which, during
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