Swedish Military Preparations Intensified; No Sense Of Defeatism; Calm Realization of Possibilities Russian march towards the Atlantic should the-Soviet forces conquer Finland and attempt to roll onwards over Swedish territory.
She recognizes that Finland has To reorganize her military defence is the simpler, for it involves known factors. Officers of the Swedish General Staff bustle with activity. Military fortes have taken their problem in hand.
There is some sense of bitterness among military circles that the parsi-many and passive attitude of those in control has so weakened Swedish defences since 1925.
There is no sense of defeatism, but only the realization that the problem would have been much simpler if defence preparations had been kept at a higher standard.
One younger officer said he was firmly convinced Sweden would become involved one way or another in the European or northern wars. "We are getting ready to fight if we must and I am afraid we must. One the} hundred and twenty years of peace were more than we could expect," he said.—United Press,
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