Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1942-09-19
SWEDEN LOOKING
TO THIS NATION
TO DEFEAT AXIS
THAT NATIONS NEWSPAPER MEN
IN TOUR OF COUNTRY, PAY
VISIT TO MONTANA


70 America TO bring the war TO (
successful conclusion. They know ab0ui
Americas great resources and the ca
liabilities OF its industrial geni1ses
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, win 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 a group OF Swedish newspaper
men who are touring the country at
the invitation of the National Press
club Of Washington, d. O., extended
through the cultural relations division
of the department Of state.
Other members of the party were
NILS Horney, a member Of the edi-
torial staff of Social-Demolrate
Stockholm labor morning daily; Gus
tai NaSstrom, art critic Of the Stock
holm T1dningen, liberal Stockholm
daily; Stem Hedman, reporter for the
Stockholm liberal newspaper, Dagens
Nyheter, and Victor Vinde, former
Paris correspondent and now a staff
member of the Handels-och-S Starts
T1dning. daily newspaper of Goteborg,
Sweden's second largest city.
I'VE are making a 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. ave 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 varf-
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
DJ0bA0AAS p44A Ot4ACA Wal cCeAFAeASos
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. I'm the different
places we study the life of the people
and the methods used both in industry
and in service"
In speaking OF the government In
Sweden, the spokesman for the vis1-
tors said: I'VE have king but we
also have q modern democracy. We
now have coalition government be-
tween all parties. They are all together
now. The Swedes 9 long, long time
ago learned the value of liberty and
freedom. They all want to be united
In this tense situation.
can the Swedish efforts in recent !
years have been concentrated In ma
tional defense, In strengthening the
army and navy. The government ap-
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 1
Of the entire population of Sweden
These men are all well equipped and
well trained. All the men are between Y
he ages of 20 and As years. They have
been modified and trained at inter- a
rails over period Of years.
I'VE have succeeded in building up a
Iur own airplane industry until 1t has ;
cached q high level. We are now Q
building special medium-sized diving
)ombers which are regarded in world O
military affairs as the equal to those G
4 Germany"
Asked about the food situation In =
sweden, Oeste said that rs percent Of =
IL the commodities in Sweden are =
,eing rationed. The rationing Of meat =
md bread is less than that in Ger =
many, he said, as there is less of these :
Gods IN Sweden now than ever before. 4
however, he said, there is an album
ance of milk, potatoes, fruit and Il
vegetables and none Of these articles Q
J rationed. Sc
1--WE have no gas for the ordinary W
erson over there" he said. "All motor p
airs are being run by charcoal. The g
rmy and the doctors are allowed gas =
Or their vehicles, but the civilians d
ave to use charcoal for the motors"
At Anaconda the visitors were shown N
bout by @. A. Lennon, assistant W
manager of the Anaconda reduction te
apartment. They left Montana for q
cattle, where they viewed many Of tn
Re war production plants. Later they &C
ent to San Francisco, Los Angeles, =
an Diego and other points before re- -
lrning east.
1--WE are having a trip filled with m
onders and information" the visit n
IL newsmen said, "and the coming u
/ contact and learning methods that II
e could learn Of IN no other way"
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