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”The World of Tomorrow”
My marriage and my many journeys to America
and to France, where I lived for a long time,
gradually brought about an interest in international
problems. When the Second World War began, I was
in the United States as Swedish representative at the
New York World’s Fair. It was quite interesting for
me to follow the developments of events from
America, Which seemed to me to be so distant from the
center of things.
The World’s Fair, that gigantic enterprise which
was supposed to symbolize ”the world of tomorrow”,
was situated in the same place as the present
headquarters of the United Nations, near Lake Success.
There one could study and observe everything new
in the fields of science and technology, of industry
and agriculture. How beautiful and pleasant that
world would be to live in! I remember how American
businessmen returning from European conventions
explained, as late as the beginning of July, 1939, that
war rumors were exaggerated. Day after day large
groups of people assembled in the ”Court of Peace”
in order to proclaim their will to increase
understanding between peoples, and in order to rejoice
over the wonderful possibilities all the inhabitants
of the earth could enjoy in tomorrow’s fortunate
world.
The dramatic events that occurred in the summer
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