Swedes Reply To Attack

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 15

Swedes Reply To Attack

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) STOCKHOLM, July 28.

“It’s a good thing his term as President is soon over if that’s what he 1 thinks about Sweden,” said tbe Swedish Defence Minister, Mr Sven Anderson, commenting today on President Eisenhower’s remarks to the Republican convention about Sweden. “This is what happens when someone in the White House gives the President something to read other than the Wild West novels he is used to,” said the Stockholm trade union paper “Aftonbladet.” “But one thing is certain—Mr Richard Nixon

would never have uttered such phrases. “It is not customary for heads of State to speak misleadingly and derogatorily about another country’s internal affairs. Such statements do nothing to promote friendliness between nations,” the newspaper declared. Scandinavia’s biggest newspaper, the Stockholm “Expressen,” called Mr Eisenhower’s speech a “violent attack” against Sweden and asked in a banner headline: “Are we a people without ambition?”

Lower down on the same page the newspaper gave the suicide rate of several countries and claimed that Sweden still had a few places to go before reaching the highest suicide rate in the world. '