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Praise of Marshall Plan Voiced
By Swedish Foreign Minister
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10. - (By
';rmail)~8weden‘s foreign policy
Thus defined anew by Osten Un
—;.en, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
at a discussion in the Riksdag on
F‘ebruary 4. In its general direc
tion it has not been changed. said
the Minister. quoting: from a Gm"
trnment declaration of' October
22. 1945, when the present Social-
Democratic administration took
office. Sweden is as much opposed
:iow as it was then to seeing the
United Nations divided into po
fitically opposed groups. On the
cther hand. Sweden appreciates
a'eeply the generous spirit of the
I-Iarshall Plan which. in the words
(‘f its originator. “is not directed?
egainst any country or any doc-3
trine but solely against hungerfi
poverty, despair. and chaos." On‘
that basis. Sweden accepted the‘
invitation to the Paris conference}
to discuss this plan. and regretsi‘
that certain European countries‘
refused to cooperate. although
asked to do so. ‘ I
The same attitude is taken in
Sweden in regard to the subse
(uent Bevin Plan. the Minister
said in a statement two days
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later. February 6. to the Stock
holm correspondent of the Renter
Agency. “if its chief implication
is cooperation among the nations
of western Europe on the basis
of the Marshall Plan which is
supported by Sweden." But. as
often stated before, Sweden is
not prepared to join any political
power bloc of the Great Powers.j
and similar declarations have re;
cently been made in behalf of the;
other Scandinavian countriefi. ‘
l-‘ommtion of Politira! Divisions
('ndesimbk‘
“My impression is that the
Bevin Plan was mainly concerned
with economic matters." said Mr.
Unden to the Renter correspond
ent. adding that it would prob
ably be discussed at the meeting
of the Scandinavian Foreign Min
isters. scheduled to be held in
Oslo February 22 - 23. Economic
problems in general will then be
the main topic.
“Because of their own funda-:
mental interests. as well as from
an idealistic point of view. the.
Swedish people must desire that
no political division of the nations
into mutually hostile groups takesl
place." the Minster quoted be
fore the Riksdag from the above§
mentioned Government statement;
of October 22, 1945. “We are will-3
ing to join a common security1
organization and in case of a fu-1
ture conflict yield our neutrality
to whatever extent may be re
quired by the statutes of such an
organization. But if contrary to
all expectation. a tendency should
arise inside -such an organization
to a division of the Great Powers
into two camps. it must be our
policy to refuse to allow ourselves
to be driven into such groups or
blocs."
SEATTLE
A Pleffg' the Hungry
Broadcasting his plea for support for the United Nations Appeal
for Children (UNAC), Trygve Lie. Secretary-General of the United
Nations, turns his calendar to the climax day 0! the world-wide
drive. UNAC, starting its campaign in February in the United
States. Canada, Czechoslovakia and the Scandinavian nations, is
asking for contributions of one day’s pay. profits, earnings or work
for feeding of hungry c'..ildren in lands where war hit hardest.
“In this declaration," the Minis~
ter went on, "there was thus ex
pressed. partly, a hope that there
would be no formation of blocs
inside the United Nations, and
partly, a Swedish resolve that if
this were to happen. we must
not allow ourselves to be driven
into such formation.”
As an ex‘ample of the “spiritual
union" recommended by Mr. Bevin
as the goal of the states of west
ern Europe, Mr. Unden called at
tention to the close cooperation
without formal political affiliation
that now exists among the Scan
dinavian states. based on a feeling
of equality. freedom, similar views
of law and the function of gov
ernment on a democratic basis.
Much additional progress along
these lines can still be made. he;-
declared.
‘Nansen' Still
Means Relief
‘ OSLO—After the first world
Ewar, hundreds of thousands of
ipersons in eastern Europe Were
jsaved from starvation by the ef
1forts of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. the
‘Norwegian explorer and humani-
Itarian. Today his son. Odd Nan
sen. is in Prague after having
toured Rumania. Hungary and
Poland, on a similar mission.
1 Odd Nansen. who was in a Ger
lman concentration camp during
Ithe war. has visited the areas
iwhere hunger is most rife. and
lhas had conversations with many
[prominent statesmen in those
‘lands. He has made his tour on
behalf of a number of Norwegian
xrelief organizations for the pur
¢pose of finding how relief supplies
can best be distributed and how
‘the various organizathns can co
|ordinate their work to secure the
igreatest efficiency.
1 Last summer Odd Nansen was
i instrumental in arranging holidays
'in Norway for a large nu.nber cf
1chi1dren from the continent. par
!ticularly children whose parents
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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
Stockholm Nearing
Million Inhabitants
ISTOCKHOLM—-(BY airmail)—-
At the beginning of this year,
Greater Stockholm, including the
surrounding garden cities, had a
population of 895,000. an increase
of 22.500 over a year before, The
city proper had 703,000 inhabi
tants.
The population of Gothenburg,
Sweden’s main shipping center. on
the west coast. grew last year by
12,000 to 337,000. and that of
Malmti, in the south. by 5,000 to
181.000. 0f Sweden's 128 cities.
eleven, including the above men
tioned three largest. have over
50,000 inhabitants each.
The urban population now totals
3,055,000, which means that forty
three per cent of Sweden's not
quite seven million inhabitants
live in cities.
Import duties collected during
1947 amounted to 335.2 million
kronor, against 215.9 million kro
nor the year before. according to
an announcement from the Cus-I
toms Department of Sweden.
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