Scandinavian American. [volume], August 01, 1948, Page 9, Image 9

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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
finland And Fagerholm...
STOCKHOLM.—-Finland has a
new prime minister, K. A. Fager
holmyand Finland has a cabinet in
which there is no Communist or
left-wing People's Democrat.
Those two facts are not uncon
nected. .
Take the prime minister first.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Fager
holm was a barber. Today he leads
Finland’s new government. In be
tween lie years devoted largely to
working for the laboring man—se
curing for him better pay, better
living conditions. and a better
education.
Consider the second fact—that
Finland's new cabinet is without
Communist influence—and it is
realized how largely that fact
stems from Mr. Fagerholm.
He is no ,politician championing
the workers’ “cause" by day, and
retiring to the comfortable realms
of “management" by night. Fin
nish workers have known Mr. Fa
gerholm a long time as editor-in
chief of their Social Democratic
Arbetarbladet, as minister of social
affairs, and most recently as
speaker in the last Parliament. 3.
position which always falls to a
member of the strongest party.
Communists and Allies Excluded
As prime minister he has
achieved something few people
thought possible—a government
from which not only the Commu
nists. but their near allies, the
People's Democrats, are excluded.
For some time after the recent
Diet elections. everything pointed
to a three-party coalition similar
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to that of the previous prime min
ister, Mauno Pekkala, in which
Agrarians, Conservatives, and So
cial and People‘s Democrats were
fairly evenly divided. Several
names were put forward for the
premiership, but those which were
acceptable to the left wingers were
turned down by the right wingers,
land vice versa.
As the two largest parties, the
Agrarians and Social Democrats,
seldom see eye to eye on political
matters, the obvious solution be
‘cause of the overwhelming labor
vote was to select a Social Demo
crat for" the premiership—Mr. Fa
gerhoIm—and with Agrarian lead
er, Urho Kekkonen, replacing him
as speaker.
Mr. Fagerholm's acceptance by
the majority to the post of prime
minister was thus a demonstration
not only of the workers’ confidence
in him but of their refusal to risk
their democratic rights at the
hands of the People's Democrats
and Communists. .
These latter two parties natural
ly regard Mr. Fagerholm as a dan
gerous reactionary who must be re
moved at the first opportunity.
Many Conservatives, on the other
hand, do not approve of him and
his party. But the fact that K. A.
Fagerholm. Social Democrat, is
Conservative President Paasikivi’s
close friend and confidant, has
had much to do with calming the
right wingers, and in particular
the Agrarians. who protested
against a Social Democratic gov
ernment when it was the Agrarians
who won the election by a narrow
margin.
Enlarged Representation Still
Open
‘ In this connection. Mr. Fager
holm said: “Both the President and
I wanted a government with wider
party representation. but discus
sions with the People's Democrats
were stranded on the distribution
of ministerial posts. If an oppor
tunity occurs. we will gladly re
open discussions for enlarging
party representation."
It. has been said that only an ex
ceedingiy intelligent and clever
man ever wins President Paasiki
vi’s confidence. That the compli
ment is well justified when applied
to Mr. Fagerholm is the opinion
of those who studied the latter’s
skillful maneuvering of the Peo-
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One of the most colorful persons aboard the Swedish American
Liner “Grispholm” when she sailed for Sweden recently with [100
passengers was 79-year olul Herman von Seheele. traveling to his
native Sweden for the first time in 61 years. At the age of 18 he
arrived in the United States in 1887 and for 54 years he has sold
hardware and holmehold goods to the inhabitants of Kodiak Island
and in the little fishing town Afongnak in Alaska. He has 10 chil
dren and 21 grandchildren. . .
Mr. von Scheele will visit his brother in Gothenhurg, Professor
Robert von Scheele, and after he has toured Sweden. he also in
tends to see Germany, England and France before his return to this
country. In the picture, he is being interviewed by Rolf Lamborn.
New York correspondent for the large Swedish daily, Stockholms-
Tidningen. ~
Néws In Brief
l General Albert W. '1‘. Osborn,
'intemational head of the Salva
‘tion Army. has arrived in Stock
;holm accompanied by his wife. In
:the last two years General Os
.born has traveled more than 85.-
;000 miles; most recently he has
ivisited the Netherlands, North
‘America, and Africa.
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’ . A typical American Fourth of
July was celebrated in Stockholm
by more than 10,000 persons. The
observance. which wa.:, sponsored
by the Swedish-American Society
and the Sweden-America Founda
tion, took place at the Skansen
out door museum. zoological gar
den, and folk park. Among the
speakers were H. Freeman Mat
thews, United States Ambassador
to Sweden. and Professor Bertil
Ohlin.' leader of the People's Party.
Jussi Bjoriing, Swedish opera star
who for many seasons has been
heard in America. offered a pro
gram of songs. Music was fur
nished by the Royal Navy band.
Among those present was Edward
Johnson. director of the Metro
politan Opera in New York, who
had arrived in Stockholm the same
day.
i O O O
N. M. Lindfors. publisher of The
Swedish Press. in Vancouver. B. C..
has been invited by the Swedish
Foreign Office to make a visit to
Sweden. He will probably go some
time this autumn. Mr. Lindfors, a
native of the Swedish. northern
ple‘s Democrats out of the govern
ment after they had refused his
offers of five different posts, none
of them the two leading posts on
which the left-wing People's Demo
crats had set their hearts and
staked their prestige.
Nor was the formation of Mr.
Fagerholm‘s government a hasty
scramble after big names to fill
posts, but was rather the result of
long weeks of quiet discussions
and careful preparations. When the
time came. Mr. Fagerholm had
only to pull his list out of his
pocket, knowing that his candi~
dates-—-- including many protes
sionai experts rather than pulm
cians—--were preparmi for their due
ties and enjoyed the President‘s
approval.
Mr. Fagerholm faces new crises
and problems guaranteed to tax
his molheadedness. Yet it Would
take s lot to shake the Finns out
of the rare daze of optimism and
confidence-mam. thumb hi which
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province of Jamtland, attended
public school in Sweden. and also
studied at one of the people's
high schools there. before emi
grating to Canada in 1924. Two
years later. in Vancouver. he
started a school to teach English
to Scandinavians. In 1932 he be
came editor of Svenska Pressen.
also in Vancouver. This was later
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‘ STOCKHOLM. .fi 198 out of
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Inow have a telephone. and 528
Stockholmers out of every 1000
are telephone subscribers. The
increase has been greater than in
.1946, 'states the Swedish Tele
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communication by radio wgs open
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direct radio-telegraph s e r v i c e s
have been opened with Hungary
and Peru. Of the total number
of telephones in the country 59.5
per cent are connected to auto
matic telephone exchanges.
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