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Seattle Public Library Has
Received New Swedish Books
The readers of this paper will
be interested to learn that the
Seattle Public Library has recent
ly received several new books in
Swedish. These books may be ob
tained from the Circulation De
partment of the Central Library
or through any of the branches or
stations.
During 1946 the Public Library
plans to acquire a large number
of new books in foreign languages
in order to bring the collections
of foreign books up-to-date. A be
ginning has been made with the
Swedish collection. which will re
ceive special emphasis because of
Sweden‘s almost unique position
during the second World War and
the renewed importance of Swe
dish creative literature.
Mr. Beverley Caverhill. former
ly of the University of Oregon
Library. has joined the staff of
the Public Library to reorganize
the foreign collections and to
bring to the attention of readers
the books, magazines. and other
foreign-language material of in
terest and importance. As the new
Swedish books arrive. they will be
reported in this paper.
New Swedish books now avail
able at the Public Library are: ‘
Osynliga stingsel. by Dagmar
Edquist. Stockholm. 1944. A best»
seller in Sweden, by a popular‘
novelist. ‘
Sla dank, by Olle Hedberg. ;
Stockholm. 1944. A novel of co'n-j
temporary SWeden‘s younger gen-1
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eration by one of the ablest young
t writers.
[ Dviirgen, by Per Lagerkvist.
iStockholm, 1944. A fascinating
lnovel of the Italian Renaissance
lperiod. The central character is a
‘dwarf who hates everyone except
l his master, the Prince, and whose
lonly passion is war. Lagerkvist,
Qwho was recently elected to the
iSwedish Academy, is probably
lSweden‘s outstanding dramatist
itoday. and in such plays as Man
inen utan sjiil (The man without
l“ soul) and Bodeln (The hang
iman) he has reached a world
lwide audience. Dviirgen has been
lpublished in English translation
, as The dwarf.
i Oviidret drar for-bi, by Gertrud
;Lilja. Stockholm. 1944. A novel of
LWorld War II.
l Langtams blaa blomma, by Alice
iLyttkens. Stockholm, 1944. His
; torical novel of the period of Gus
:tavus IV of Sweden.
Soldat med brutet geva’r. by Vil
'hclm Moberg. Stockholm, 1944.
‘ The latest of Moberg‘s novels and
iconsidered to be one of his best.
;Most of his writing is concerned
fiwith social conditions.
l Kvarnlyckan. by Ingegard Sta
rdencr. Stockholm, 1944. A modern‘
. novel: j
. Lars Laurila. by Sally Salminen.‘
lStockholm. 1944 (printed in Hel-l
jsingforsl. In this story of Lars;
iLaurila, Salminen again uses the‘
I background of the Swedish-speak‘
,‘ ing Aland Islands which she knows‘
{so well. Her three earlier novels
1 of the Alands have also been add-1
ed recently to the Swedish collec-}
‘tion; Katrina (1937), Ben langaj
wilren 11939, translated into Eng-l
lish as Mariana), and Pa liis sand
l 1941). Katrina and Mariana were'
1very popular in Sweden and the
1 United States. I
1 Den gangen, by Gustaf Hell-i
lstrom. Stockholm, 1944. Another
lnovel concerned with Stellan Pet
‘ reus. H_cllstrom's “alter ego." who.
‘ in this story is involved in World?
War I in France. Hellstro'm's con-l
‘ siderable popularity dates froml
.the publication in 1927 of his no-!
Jvel. Snomlakare bekholm far en}
ide, which is available in the Pub-i
lic Library in SWedish and in the:
'English translation. Lacemaker!
Lckholm gets an idea. 3
Sveriges historia, by Ingvar‘
Anderson. Stockholm, 1944. The}
second edition ithe first edition}
was in Danish! of this well-bal-l
anced and well-written history!
which tells the story of Sweden
from the earliest beginnings up tol
1943. The illustrations are espcd
cially good. l
Will U.S.A. Ilave
Bases 0n Iceland?
In the Treaty between Iceland
and the United States about the
military protection of Iceland
dated July 7. 1941. it is agreed
that all United States Military
forces shall leave Iceland within
six months after the finish of the
war.
It seems that American oplnfon
considers the bases in Iceland of
importance. and it has several
times been mentioned in news
paper articles and speeches in Con
gress that the troops ought to stay'
there. Icelandic opinion has been
somewhat anxious about these ut
terances, thinking that they were
perhaps trial balloons to test the
reaction. The State Department
has. however. more than once de
nied that these expressions were
anything but the private opinions
of the persons who voiced them.
Lately it seems that several Con
gressmen have been toying with
the idea that Iceland should be
invited to be the forty-ninth State
of the Union. .
In the beginning of October the
news came from Moscow that the
United States Government was ne
gotiating with the Icelandic Gov-
Standardization
Saves Millions
In Swedish Plants
‘ STOCKHOLM. — Standardiza-
Ition in various fields of produc
tion has been carried far in Swe
den. As the importance of an ex
tensive standardization has be
come generally realized, the in
vestigation work in this field has
been intensified. The work is in
the first place handled by the
Swedish Standardization Commit
tee. which was formed as early
as in 1922. In a recbnt report one
of its members, Folke Lindgren.
a mining engineer, publishes some
interesting results reached by this
organization.
The Swedish standardization
work. which has as far as pos
sible been carried out along in
ternational lines, was started inj
1918 in the engineering industry“
where in the course of years a:
great many details such as bear-i
ings, screws, nuts, etc., have beenl
standardized, Sweden played a‘
leading part in the fixing of the
chief dimensions of ball and roller
bearings. It was possible to ar
rive at a world standard which
could be accepted by all countries,
even by those using the inch sys-l
tem. I
Particularly in the building in
dustry, standardization has come
to the fore in these days as a con
sequence of the vast reconstruc
tion work. that has to be taken
in hand in most countries. Ra
tionalization and standardization
had not made the same progress
in this field as in others before
the war. Obviously, a. far-reach
ing standardization of the various
details in house-building must be
of immense importance. It is.
however, not possible to standard
ize the various details of a build
ing by taking each one separately,
this Swedish expert states. Ev
erything must form part of a cer
tain system. The measurements
of a window, for example. may not
be fixed in view of the special
functions of the window; they
must also be in accordance with
the measurements of the building
stones. the woodwork, etc.
For this purpose a so-tcaned
“module system" has been worked
out in Sweden, which it is hoped,
will be generally accepted in the
near future. After a careful in
vestigation comprising practically
every item in a house. the “module
measurement," or the basic figure
for the entire system. has been
are an exact multiple of 10 centi
meters. This implies that in the
future it would not be allowed to
manufacture anything belonging
to a house without using‘ such
measurements or dimensions as
are an exact multipleo f 10 cent
meters. or possibly half thereof.
One detail that is already gen
erally standardized in Swedish
house-building is the ordinary
door. A few figures may illus
trate what this implies. Normally
about 300,000 doors are made in
Sweden each year. By standardiz
ing the measurements it is esti
mated that the factories have
been able to bring down the costs
by 20 per cent—~in this case a
saving of over one million kronor
($250,000).
After the end of the war the
international relations in the field
of standardization have been re
established, and a new interna
tional organization formed on the
initiative of Britain and America
has taken over the work of the
earlier standardization bodies.
emment for a lease of bases for
99 years. The bases in question
would make one of the great alr
ports of the world: they would
include Meek: Field. which is sit
uated about thirty miles west 0:
Reykjavik in a barren lava desert.
and also the natural harbor or
Hvalfjordur as a fleet base.
Both the State Department and
the Foreign Minister of Iceland
have refused to dismiss the matter.
Alaskan Woman Turned Down lunch
Invitation From Kin‘gOf Denmark
ANCHORAGE. Alaskas—Hailed
in Copenhagen as the first civil
ian Danish-American to arrive in
Denmark since the evacuation of
the Germans. Mrs. Oscar Nielsen
of Anchorage told how she turned
down an invitation to lunch with
a king.
Recuperating from an arduous
trip to Denmark to be at the bed
side of her dying mother, Mrs.
Nielsen asserted she will post
pone another_ trip to Europe until
regular civilian travel facilities:
are re-estabiished. ‘
Mrs. Nielsen obtained high pri
ority late last summer to go to
Denmark where her family lived
during the occupation. Her moth
er had become seriously ill during
the last stages of the war and by
using all possible pressure and
traveling by any conveyance, in—
cluding a bomber from London.
Mrs. Nielsen was able to be with
her mother several weeks before
she passed away.
The invitation to have luncheon
with King Christian came through
the Danish-American club in Co
penhagen, she said. While at the
home of her brother. a captain in
the merchant marine, she was
summoned to the telephone and a
secretary of the royal office asked
her to meet with several others at
the club to meet the king. Mrs.
Nielsen said the acute illness of
her mother at that particular time
made it necessary to decline.
Hailed in Copenhagen .
Hailed by the Copenhagen “Po
iitiken." a leading daily newspaper.
as the first Danish-American
civilian to visit Denmark since the
war, she was interviewed at length
and an article with her picture
which carried a message from
Alaska. appeared soon after she
Norway Receives
8 German Ships
Eight German ships, totaling
12,450 tons were recently trans~
ferred to Norway as a first pay
ment on that country‘s $4.230.-
000.000 reparation claim against
Germany.
Earlier Norwegian claims for
80,000 tons of German shipping to
help compensate war losses have
now been reduced by half and will
cover only those German ships
which have been or are now moor
ed in Norwegian harbors_ including
26 ships in all.
For the time being, none of the
26 ships will be regarded as Nor
wegian property. but will simply
be manned and used by Norwegian
shipping firm 5, especially those
which have suffered heavy losses
during the war, until a final settle
ment is reached.
m
A Wartime Survey
Edited with the assistance of the Swedish Public Authorities
This book is especially edited for the American public and the
Swedish population in America. It is an excellent source 01' in
formation and guidance of the conditions of present day Swedt‘n-
The book is written in pupuiar style but the attempt to make
it easy to l‘(':ld has not precluded the incorporation of a great deill
of exact information tint will help the reader to form a trut‘
niid (‘iezir conception of Swwlen in wartime. The book is divided
in [\Vt'nty-SCVPII different t-liapters, each chapter is written b)’
experts in their i‘espettive fields.
The KIM:
Tlv- Political 5"!th
Tln- Ih-femw of Neutrality
The) Humv Guard
floclal “'elfnru Work for Soldiers
The Home Front
l'hyslral Tralnlnz
The Wnl'tlmn Economic
Administration
The Food Supply
Thu Furl l'rnhlom
The Manufacture of Subslltutu
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66."; lumington Awnue New l’urk 22. N- Y-
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_THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
arrived. She said the Danish ro
porters plied her with questions
about the north which she an
swared to the best of her ability.
Denmark did not suffer physical
violence at the hands of. the Ger
mans as did other countries that
put up armed resistance to occu
pation. but the aftermath of the
war is clearly discernible. she said.
Clothing is one of the most preSS
ing needs. The famed agricultural
and dairy products lands have
been stripped but to recover their
food industry, the Danes now ask
only fertilizer and fuel. They are
confident that they will be able to
regain their high place in the
world dairy exports on their own
initiative, she said.
Mrs. Nielsen was the only wom
an passenger on 8. Liberty ship
homeward bound. Two days out
from Europe a terrific Atlantiv
storm struck and preparations
were made to abandon ship after
it cracked along its length. How
ever. it made the port of Boston
with American rescue ships stand
ing by. The return trip home
was completed by train to Seattlo
and plane to Anchorage.
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