Scandinavian American. [volume], April 01, 1947, Page 2, Image 2

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Four hundred millions is the sum mentioned for selling
purposes. But only those completely indifferent to history
—especially more recent American foreign spending his
tory—will believe that our top level policy-makers hope to
expect to bail Great Britain out of Greece and other eastern
Mediterranean interests for the stated sum. If the job is
to be done, Congress had as well prepare to give our Presi
dent and State Department a blank check.
That is the reason the Congress is displaying a com
mendable regard for the financial realities when it refuses
to be swept off its feet by the frantic warnings of the
President and the war drums of the nation’s press. It in
sists upon seeing a few of the cards which are kept care
fully hidden instead of being frightened into hasty action
on the sole evidence of one exposed card which shows
Uncle Joe Stalin's face.
Quite pertinently. Henry Wallace asks, in effect, if we
are prepared to enter a game in which we shall have to
gamble American dollars against the staying powers of
an ideology which, after all, is the concern of those who
hold to its tenets. We should think twice before we adopt
a national policy which will make our type of democracy
more aggressive than Russian Communism. more deter
mined to force its blessings upon the world. in order to
enjoy these blessings at home.
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In the long view. we are not insuring ‘the survival and
enlargement of the American democracy by marshaling all
its material savings and placing them at the disposal of a
nation which has never shown the will to extend or even
permit the advantages of democracy to the teeming mil
lions of its conouered and exploited subject peoples.
In all English colonial historvthere is not a single in
stance in which British government has on its own motion
granted democratic self-government to a conquered people.
Only after feeling an active fear that further hesitation
and delay might cause a colony to cut loose from the
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mother country has she permitted domination status and a
measure of self-government to such areas as Canada. Yet
this is a national policy we 'are to enforce with our dollars
and our military strength, after she has dissipated her
wealth and her‘human resources in a‘centuries-old series
of aggressions which have been .as brutal as anything
which can be charged-to Russia.
Instead of insuring the perpetuation of the democratic
concept which all Americans cherish. all-out and unde
limited support of Great Britain will place us on the same
toboggan with a nation which has gone down because
during the centuries when she was strong enough to prac
tice unrestrained aggression she was unwilling to'concede
to her subject peoples the principle of democracy about
which President Truman utters his strange mumbo-jumbo
in an effort to frighten Congress and the American people
into giving a blank check to bail out a moral bankrupt,
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With the exception of an insignificant minority, Ameri
cans are willing to give unstintingly of their wealth and
blood to preserve the American way of life. But Congress
and the people will have to have more convincing proof
than any thus far adduced that giving Britain a warranty
deed to the Mediterranean is the way to do it.
Communism has made no real advance in the United
States because we‘have gone further than any other people
(though by no means all the way) in making it possible for '
most of our citizens to enjoy the things to which Commu
nists may refer only in nebulous promises. The way to con
tinue to protect America against Communism is to see
that the political and economic means by which these
things have been done are continued and perfected.
'There is no other way. Why try to buy or blast out an
insurance policy which lies in plain View within easy reach
of our hands, if they are steadied by restraint and wise
leadership ?
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iplywood. of which there exists1
lnowadays a large number of types:
and qualities, are being used on ani
ever-increasing scale as building‘i
hmaterials all the world over. Lasti
‘year Sweden, which is‘one of the;
‘world's biggest producers of these;
products. had a record export of;
[nth wallboard and plywood, ac-:
cording to preliminary export fig'-‘
‘ures published in the Svenskl
’fravaru-Tidning. . i
The exports , of waliboard;
amounted in 1946 to close on 69,-:
000 tons. as against 15,400 tons in;
1945 and 43,000 tons in 1939. which;
up to now has been the record;
year. Most of the increase; went,
;to Great Britain. Plywood exports:I
iamounted to about 11,000 tons, all2
of which, with the exception of“
1200 tons, consisted of pine or:
‘spruce. In 1945 shipments amount-:
ind to 10,000 tons. in 1939 to 6.000
1tons. and-in 1937 to 8,300 tons. ‘
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Swedish Planned :
A Summer School for Swedish.
Studies. the third annual session:
is announced by North College in;
Chicago for June 30-August 22%
1947. A remarkable interest in;
the Swedish language and Swedish t
culture has developed during the
last few years. not only amongl
descendants of Swedish immi
grants._ but also among peoplet
with no Scandinavian background.
To meet this new demand for in-l
struction in Swedish. North Park.
is conducting this specialized sum-1t
mer training school. i
An intensified method of lang<I
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{give a person in 8 weeks a knmvl-l’
;udge of conversational Swedish'
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study the co-operative movement.
the latter to study forestry. A
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may be secured by addressing:
Summer School for Swedish
Studies, 3225 Foster Avenue, Chi
cago 25, Illinois.
Greta Skoog. Swedish mezzo
soprano, on March 14 made her
New York debut in Times Hall
with a program of Italian. Ger
man, Norwegian and Swedish
songs. The New York Herald Tri
bune wrote of her that she sang
‘with intelligence. maturity and
taste."
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