Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1942-09-25
SWEDEN LOOKING
TO THIS NATION
TO DEFEAT AXIS
THAT NATIONS NEWSPAPER MEN
IN TOUR OF COUNTRY, PAY
VISIT TO MONTANA

The people of Sweden are looking
70 America to bring the war to a
successful conclusion. They know about
Americas great resources and the ca
liabilities OF its industrial geniuses
They have seen all the reverses of the
English since the war started. They
feel that the Americans in this war,
as In the last World war, will be the
people to crush the German machine
This is the statement of Alfred
Oeste, foreign editor of Svenska Dag
bladet, conservative newspaper OF
Stockholm, who was in Butte recently
with group of Swedish newspaper
men who are touring the country at
the invitation Of the National Press
club OF Washington, D. c., extended
through the cultural relations division
Of the department of state.
Other members of the party were
Nils Horney, member OF the edi-
torial staff OF Social-Demokraten.
Stockholm labor morning daily: Gus
tat Nasstrom, art critic of the Stock
holm Tidningen, liberal Stockholm
daily; Sten Hedman, reporter for the
Stockholm liberal newspaper, Dagens
Nyheter, and Victor Vinde, former
Paris correspondent and now staff
member Of the Handels-och-Sja
Tidning, daily newspaper of Goteborg,
Sweden's second largest city.
I'VE are making three-month tour
of the country to learn the habits and
manners of the American people and
to get an insight into the war effort
as relates to this country" Oeste said.
I'VE are looking at things which are
different than those in our own coun-
try and we are sending cables back
home so that the people in Sweden
may be conversant with what we are
seeing and doing. We cable home news
about everything we see and learn.
Sweden is vitality interested in
America, not alone because the people
there feel that America will win this
war as it did the last but also because
in this country there are more than
100000 Swedes, counting the third
and fourth generations. Over there in
Sweden the people are vitality inter-
ested in the development of the vari-
Gus industries and plants here in
America" The sentiment in Sweden is
overwhelmingly with the Allies.
Oeste said that the visiting news
men have seen many armament plants
on their tour, together with training
stations and other war activities.
I'VE came here to see Butte, the
place where they mine so much copper,
and to view the great smelter at Ana
conda," he said In the different
places we study the life Of the people
and the methods used both in industry
and in service"
r, s,>ooL;pr ~ tho oovernnept in
Sweden, the spokesman for the vist-
tors said: I'VE have king but we
also have a modern democracy. We
now have a coalition government be-
tween all parties. They are all together
now. The Swedes long, long time
ago learned the value of liberty and
freedom. They all want to be united
in this tense situation.
"All the Swedish efforts in recent
years have been concentr ated in ma
tional defense, in strengthening the
army and navy. The government ap-
preparations at the present time for
that purpose are 20 times more than
in peacetime We now have $4,000
soldiers in uniform. That is one-tenth
of the entire population of Sweden.
These men are all well equipped and
well trained All the men are between
the ages of 20 and As years. They have
been modified and trained at inter-
walls over period of years.
I'VE have succeeded in building up
our own airplane industry until it has
reached a high level. We are now
building special medium-sized diving
bombers which are regarded in world
military affairs as the equal to those
of Germany"
Asked about the food situation in
Sweden, Oeste said that rs percent OF
all the commodities in Sweden are
being rationed. The ratioaing of meat
and bread is less than that in Ger
many, he said as there is less of these
foods in Sweden now than ever before.
However, he said, there is an album
dance of milk potatoes, fruit and
vegetables and none of these articles
is rationed.
1--WE have no gas for the ordinary
person over there" he said. AL motor
cars are being run by charcoal. Inc
army and the doctors are allowed gas
for their vehicles, but the civilians
have to use charcoal for the motors
At Anaconda the visitors were shown
about by C. A. Lennon, assistant
manager of the Anaconda reduction
department. They left Montana for
Seattle. where they viewed many OF
the war production plants. Later they
went to San Francisco, Los Angeles,
San Diego and other points before re-
turning east.
aWe are having a trip filled with