The Swedes Move First

The State Department got all set last week to stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away, alongside its warnings to Argentina.

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