SWEDEN AND GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 3

SWEDEN AND GERMANY

The sensational revelations as to the policy of Swedish officials towards tho Entente will probably cause as much disgust and indignation among tho great body of the Swedish nation as among Die rest of the world (says the ‘Daily Chronicle’). Apart from tho Activists, they aro a frank, open-hearted, simple people, who believe in what Mr Roosevelt calls a square deal, with other peoples as with their King. The late Sovereign told an Englishman that tho Scandinavian peoples “ want a sovereign, but they want a sovereign for sixpence.” Which means that they like simplicity at Court as in their own homes.

King Gustav has long been an anient admirer of the Kaiser, to whose first cousin he is married. They both know how the Swedes regard royalty. When King Gustav’s mother was going -with her family in slow stages to Trondhjem to be crowned, the country folk crowded round her at every stopping place. “Art thou the mother of, the laud? Art thou the mother of these tall boys?” they asked. They reviewed her critically. * “ Thou lookest nice; but thou must do more than look nice, for that is not essential,” they added significantly. King Gustav,’ knowing England well, is awake that our people also demand that Royalty should do more than look nice.