The Archive · 1940

Swedish Nazis Active

Stockholm, Apr. 14.

The Social Demokraten reports that Swedish Nazis are increasing their activity in this country.

The police have arrested a so-called oticer coming from Boden who tried to engage a number of unemployed to form a new political group. A number of pamphlets were seized, and these promised the unemployed one and a half crown a nay as salary.—Havas, War Coming Closer to America's Door British Coup at Narvik Blazoned in U.S, Press New York, Apr. 14.

The successful British naval coup at Narvik is blazoned in the press.

German implications of the latest developments in Europe are the topic of leading articles. Emphasis is laid on the extreme improbability of the government's departing front its most scrupulous policy of nonintervention in any form, particularly in view of the coming elections.

The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times.". however, Geclares that there is a growing feeling that although American policy as unchanged by the spread of the war, "watchful waiting becomes tittle more intense."

The "Herald-Tribune" states: "The fate of Greenland brings the war to our very doors, If Holland is invaded, the fate of Curacao and the Dutch West Indies would bring the war within a stone's throw of our key defences.

"Today, as in 1917, people dread the thought of going to war, but the United States must face the possibly ity that she may be forced to joi& in the fray as the only way to pro" tect her own interests."—Reuter.

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