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and which certainly has been useful when sometimes
I have thought that things were difficult at home.
In the larger issues, when real need and trouble come
to people, trivialities, which to us Swedes may seem
important, become insignificant. I wish that many of
my countrymen could have been present during this
impressive service in the sailor’s church in Lübeck.
The next day I returned home by automobile via
Denmark and had the opportunity to discuss with
General Barker, Commanding General in
Schleswig-Holstein a number of technical problems in connection
with future aid to children and the repatriation of
Swedes. He evidenced a sympathetic attitude toward
these problems and promised us all possible
assistance. J
Not before the end of November did we receive
definite information from Berlin about the attitude of
the Allied Control Council toward our proposal. We
were informed that the Council had decided to allow
the commander of each zone to determine whether or
not Swedish relief was desirable. At the same time,
we learned that the only commander who had
expressed himself in full support of our proposals, was the
chief of the British Zone. We therefore had to
contact the British authorities again to obtain their
assurance that there would be no obstacles in the path
of Swedish relief work in the British Zone, We also
had to discuss a number of technical details.
On my last visit to Frankfurt I had, in my capacity
as Chairman of the Swedish-American Society in
Stockholm, asked General Bisenhower if one of his
generals might not be interested in coming to
Stockholm and, as a guest of the Society, be present at
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