Stockholm, Feb. 11.
Yesterday's raids by the police on Communists in Stockholm and Go-then burg were the biggest against a political party in many years.
About 300 police participated. They visited centres of the Communist party in Stockholm and also houses of certain Communist leaders.
In a communique issued on the raids, the Chief of Police here stated that information was received that the Swedish Communist Party had received large sums of money from Russia, probably destined for harmful ends in Sweden, When the Labour Delegation from Sweden visited Moscow in 1994, the communique continued, two Swedish and one Norwegian members were received by a prominent: Soviet: official, who offered them money ' for - the' promotion "of Communist activity in Stockholm, and illegal Communist party activity in Finland. Each member is said to have received the equivalent of £400, which was smuggled into Sweden.
Of the ten persons arrested, one was the editor-in-chief of the Communist newspaper "Riy Dag', who was released, Two were foreigners, Much material was confiscated likely to be important in judging the extent and aims of Communism in Sweden, the communique concluded. Several were arrested at Gothenburg, Which has long been a Communist stronghold.—Reuter, parture for Europe to investigate the political conditions of the belligerent countries.
The vote is taken here as another indication of France's determination to suppress the Nazi peril as a prerequisite of any peace plan. The intransigeant speech delivered two day ago by the German Home Minister, Dr. Walter Trick, is not calculated to simplify Mr. Welles mission, the same quarters opine.
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