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that their living conditions were intolerable. As I
heard later on, there were about two-thousand of
them., Her plan was to get food parcels from America
and she now wanted to know if the Swedish Red
Cross could forward these to Norway. I promised,
of course, to do all I could, but I had strong doubts
that this matter could be arranged. It proved that
my doubts were justified. When we in Sweden took
up the question with the German officials, they were
definitely epposed to the plan.
Before I left London, I was asked to make a
statement to the representatives of the Swedish
press. I was very dubious. Of course nothing should
yet be published about the planned exchange of
prisoners of war, as no one knew what the results
would be. However, I tried an experiment. Quite
candidly, I told the reporters present about my
negotiations in Geneva and London. I also told them
that prospects Were good for a new exchange via
Sweden in the course of the year. At the same time,
however, I asked them not to publish anything about
matters as they stood then. The main reason for
keeping these plans quiet was that publication might
raise false hopes in the various prison camps. I wanted
to avoid, at any price, a repetition of the
disappointment experienced by so many soldiers on the English
Channel earlier in the war. It is with real admiration
and with gratitude that I now think back on the
loyalty the Swedish press showed me that time. As
a matter of fact, I had a similar experience in
Germany at the end of the war when the Swedish Red
Cross was engaged in liberating the Scandinavian
concentration camp prisoners. These experiences
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