Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1949-11-28
The Man Who Missed By A Long Shot

We all have to grow up and get big day and the
sooner the better Senator Elmer Thomas from Oklahoma
appears has grown up, but he wanted to be big
just the
really pfu that creature of his senatorial stature
should be reduced figuatvely to the size of and
then be smashed squashed underneath the burdeome
weight of attacks from both the American and
Swedish press It's terrible thing to man buried
alive. must kneel and ponder humby before this
most pitifu grave.
He fell dead in his tracks while fighting
against million peace-ovng people, against the in
teress of 150O0000O people, whom he represented Truly
that's unique record quite unequaed in history and we
shall remember it. Yes, shall We shall remember Sem
Elmer Thomas from Oklahoma for he surpassed the
craziest notions of the widest kids in the nosest neigh
borhood He SENATOR who deserved the title and
the honor of representing this country in the outside
world. The job is too big for him.
Quoting Thomas, who visited Sweden recently
Der senate subcommittee touring Europe: Sweden
has not helped anyone during the past 135 years
everyone military uniform in that country spy
. they saw some easy money (NIarsha Aid funds) and
they grabbed it-now they want more, etc, ETC.
Thomas treated with all due respect by the proper
representatives of the Swedish government but neverthe
less he felt he snubbed. So the New York Times
writes apparently brass band no ticker
tape tossed from windows cheering thousands
lined the streets and the key to the city had been misad
when Senator Thomas arrived in Stockholm. The
New York World-Teegram exclaimed: what, no smor-
gasbord?" The New York Herald Tribune: IF the Con-
gressonal unkeeers want souvenirs of their trips is
safer be photographed riding cames in the shadow of
the Pyramids than to acquire scrapbooks of abusive clip
pings The Stockholm Tidningen: "You boor and
liar, Mr. Senator
The New York Daily News at up to the liberal
Swedish paper Expressen to on the burning oil and
exhibit knowledge of the makeup of the us. Senate
asoundngly for bunch of Swedes living 5000
miles away and kissed off ungrateu useless beggars
by Senator Thomas. This amazing rue-to-life portrait
comes from Expressen-The United States Senate is
tainy high assembly but it is also dumping place for
all of quaint characters and the most ignorant
try politicians from the darkest of the Union And
it must be pretty dark in Oklahoma"
AS Cliff Danielson Seattle student in Stockholm, says
in a special report for this issue of the Scandinavian
American, Sweden has been unwilling to accept outright
gifts of American dollars help She is not getting
thing for nothing OF the S92 million allotted to her. S22
million the basis of twentyyear loan at 22 percent
interest; the remainder consists of conditional loans
American credit which Sweden receives by supplying other
European countries with goods to such amount And
Sweden stands better chance of solving its dollar prob
lem by the 1852 deadne stipulated in the Marshall Plan
than does other European country according to Mike
Harris, ECA administrator in Sweden
The Polish Relief Committee in Europe, in protest to
Thomas said that mo other country in the world has
done relieve the distress caused by the last
than Sweden the World Jewish Congress said that
Thomas remarks insult to of the worlds
most humanitarian countries which has donated 700 mil
lion dollars to the wartorn countries" Proportonately
the sum greater than that given by Americans Eu