The Archive · 1940

Swedish Communist Spy Ring Revealed

Stockholm, Jan, 21.

The newspaper "Social Demokraten" states that the police have unearthed a Communist spy organization with tentacles in every part of the country. Many Swedish Reds are stated to have been arrested following the discovery of a secret wireless station transmitting details of military and industrial defence measures. Many Communists have been removed from responsible posts of labour organizations since the Soviet invasion of Finland—Reuter, he was quite sure that many losses and misfortunes lay ahead of" the Allies on sea.

'We look forward, as months pass, to the establishing of such a degree of safe sailings as will enable commerce of all nations, whose ships accept our guidance, not only to live, but to thrive, 'This' part, at least, of the Nazi attack on freedom fs not going to bar the path of justice or retribution."

Paying tribute to the "magnificent" service Finland has rendered mankind, Mr. Churchill said: "They exposed for all the world to 900 the military incapacity of the Red Army and Air Force, Many illusions about Soviet Russia have been dis-polled in these deco weeks of fghting in the Arctic Circle. Everyone can see how Communism rots the Soul of n nation and makes {t abject and hungry in peace and proves vase and abominable in ward"

He said he could not tell what fate Finland'a might be, but no more mournful spectacle could be present ed than that this splendid northern race should at last. be worn down and reduced to servitude worse than death by the dull brutish force of overwhelming numbers, If the light of freedom which still. burned 00 brightly In the frozen north should finally be quenched, it might well herald a return to the dark when every vestige of human progress during 2,000 years would be Mr. Churchill asked what would happen if all small neutral nations concerned were spontaneously to do their duty in accordance with the covenant of the League of Nations Jand stand together with the British and French Empires against aggression and wrong.

He said at present their plight was lamentable, ut It would become much worse. All of them hoped that the storm would pass before their turn came to be devoured; but the storm would not pass; It would rage fand rear even more loudly and widely and spread to south and north, There was no chance of a jond except through united action, Disintegration of Nazis "When we look behind the brazen fronts of Nazidom, as we have var-fous means of doing, we see many larkable signs of psychological and physical disintegration, We see short-ges of raw materials which already begin to hamper both the quality and the volume of their war industry.

"we feel the hesitancy of divided counsels and doubts which assail and undermine those who count on force alone.

In the bitterly exacting conflet which Iles before us, we are resolved to keep nothing back and not be outstripped by any in service to the common cause, "Let the great cities of Warsaw, Prague and' Vienna banish despair even inthe midst' of their agony. Their Weeration is sure. The day will come when joy bells will ring again throughout Europe, and when victorious nation, masters not only of their foes, but of themselves, will plan and build in justice, in tradi tion and freedom, a house of many mansions where there will be room for all" Mr. Churchill' coneluded—

Reuter,

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