English Translation

66 ~ 18 In "Göteborg's Hanlels- und Schiffahr tszeitung" of 2.3.44 , an article of the Dane Christian Fribert is published under the title "Reflections of a Dane in Sweden about the way the Swedes react" in which he vchrieb: "A Dane who is present in Sweden today can truly not avoid feeling a little distressed by three small events of the last few months. Of course, they were only small, but their lack of importance makes the mass of dust they have stirred up all the more surprising. First, there was the Swedish Minister of Justice, Council of State Bergquist, who pointed out that Sweden, before it could take on Danish saboteurs, had to examine them precisely. ....... Case No. 2 - certainly the most unbadest - affects the restaurant "Blue Bird" in Stockholm, where the police intervened against a small group of Danish artists (all refugees) because they had violated the legally defined term "concert" by lecture of Danish poets Kaj Munk and Otto Gelsted. ....... Finally, case No. 3: Some hot-blooded young Danes in the Sunhultsbrunn camp near Frinnaryd tried themselves some time ago in the "Friseurgcwerbe". Of course, all these are only Lappalien, but it is not. the incident itself, which is interested here, but the reaction which he evokes in Sweden. From this reaction, however justified it may be in some eyes, one can get the impression that the gap between Swedish and Danish~Norwegian life-views is getting wider and deeper, and that after the war one is very difficult. "Nya Dagligt Allehanda" wrote in an editorial of 4.3.l944: "A well-known Norwegian writer recently wrote in a weekly that the Norwegian refugees after the war ended with bitter feelings against Sweden.