COMMUNISTIC TRENDS IN SWEDEN

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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- bo party group .a In tho Stu,dtsh Parliament have attended moetings at which
Pi k' leaders 2lave~ Made atdreetseo. The Prim Minister hraro, Togo Er1endor,
spa he is highly,,..' a~t,ified at the thought that the Government proposals have
bl1 subjected to, dome criticism In the Rikedag. This, he thinks, offers
:~gaarentee that,Itho resolutions approved Nil" be the, boat possible solutions
tol the questions 6t Hague.
Prime Mir~alt'o7r hopes to ba at)
"a to purcn a policy in which both the
Qe~aiade for loyment and for stabilized price levels could be meet
Conasrhai+iv!es 111 is;aep on demanding that the tax bard en, imposed on the
ttira Nations,, V eaarn.ere, salaried and bni;ropreneurs, shall be ll.ghtonod.
,srofeenor 0h'1.in, the leader of the People6 A Peirty, x etted that during
tbm past year, that Social Denocrate have adopted a new tone which bas stultified
dabats0
,The Qomninist loader, Linoerot, promised the Government hi:. partyge support
it I it really seriously intends to carry through the present program. The
losLd.era of the Agcy slam Party, Bramstorp, on the other band, considers that
a "Igo of couraslin called fcr in the country's economic policy. t:
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4Th2s morning 129otions were submitted to the Rikedag. AL1 the political
pafctieo with the 6,'! option of they Commtauistn supported a motion to increase
the appropriation !or the voluntary rifle clubo to 1,680,000?kranor, which
11240, 000 kronoraOre than the Government?-requeatod.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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0oaamQn1stte Te Ida in Sweden
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"A Siredi~oh trade dalegation loft .11es,terday for the Russian :.ono in Germany
to negotiate,; Tri tai the Russian authorities about the purchase and delivery
of 'nr tous cor~od tine. The Swodos aro all going as reprosontatives of
their individual firms and arc not comni ssioned by the Government. The
Swedoe are 3,ntereste& in the purehaue of chemicals in the cast Zone?also
textilos anilplaster of parts. In exchange they are prepared to exhort
gooas to the I Tnzsaian Zone, such as tanning equipment."
S"l:DTS:T JOUMITALISTS, Gustav Johanoson, Goeata lrLring, hiding JungrajLus:~:uprg,
and Carl' Nycpp, nor vibiting the USSR, met Frith Soviet rrriters .Aleaandor ]`adeyev
Genera: Secretary of the Soviet "riters' Union; Leonid. Leor-?v, Konstantin Podia,
Leonid Sovolev, Vera Inber, and others at the 'Tritera Club in floscotr. The
Swedish huesits dispir:yed keen interest in the 'Torlca of Soviet publishers, and
said that Laterest In Soviet literature has considerably increased in Sweden.
(Moscow,Jan 30)W
Stockholm, in I glish to % ,rope, Fob. 3, 1947. 1:40 p.m. EST--L
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"-The talks between the Russianr and private Srror:Aeh firms are going",, on
but it has not yet been possible to reach any important docisions, for
the goods differ widely in ty?e and are uncommon. Deals amounting to
some mi.lllone (prclatu?abl Swedish tcrnnor-Y-1d..) have already been concluded
on the basin of the trade treaty rrh.ch came into force in December 1946.
but tho deals now being negotiated +Tould amount to several hundred millions.
Stockholm, SVredish Home Sorvice, Mar. 17, 1947, 10:00 a.m. TST--.L
(Poiiti.cal Review)
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TctunenJs speech to Congress has aroused considerable attention in Sweden
rhere tho now?papers :?rominently ; 3ature resorts from ':-ashington and have
published detailed comments on the President's statement... "The Con?iunist
paper Dl3 DAC finally says: 9The President's speech is manifestly influenced
by attempts to strengthen his party position in the fact of the Presidential
elections. But its consequencee in the field of international policy! map
be dieastrous,
Stockholm, Swedish Hone Ser?E-1ce, Jan. 28, 1947, 6:30 a.m. . ST--L
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"IT-he) President has now opened play Trith high stakes but such reactionary
provocations as the attacks on the d3mocratic coalition Governments., in
Poland. Rumania, and '9ulgaria, running parallel !ith the watch beir.,;'kept
to oa_".ogus?rd the fascist regimes in Spain and Greed'e, and the semifasciet
regimes in China and Turkey, ms,y perhaps serve to open the eyes of America's
working masses. Tho latter are still keeping silent in the face of the
increasingly adventurous policy that 13 being inspired by Americam high
finance and the military hierarchy. ? r"The newspaper concludes: @ If the
intentions is to invalidate loyal cooperation between the 4 Great Powers
President Truman seems to have chosen exclusive methods for carrying out
that intention. If ho cherishes the idea that the United States Trill
henceforth aJ.cne dic?~::te ro?aean policy he, may soon be disillusioned,"
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Stockholm in aart,r is rallying more Firmly behind the Gov-
ernment."
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