Patience Exhausted

German abuse of Sweden's neutrality long ago aroused the normally placid Swedes. Last week they seethed over two fresh incidents:

> An armed German merchant ship had fired on the Swedish submarine Broken in Swedish territorial waters. When the Swedish Government protested, the German Government announced that the attack was justified because the submarine had maneuvered in a combatlike manner.

> Searchers for the Swedish submarine Ulven, lost April 16 near the spot where the Draken was attacked, found German mines moored in Swedish waters. Presumably the Ulven struck a mine.

A blunt Swedish note last week rejected the German explanation of the Draken incident, added another protest on the finding of the mines. Said the note: "Swedish warships have been ordered to intervene against ships of warring powers laying mines or firing at other vessels in Swedish territorial waters."

This was no empty threat. Since Neighboring Norway and Denmark were invaded in 1940, Swedish airmen and antiaircraftmen have shot down scores of German planes which flew over Sweden and failed to heed warnings. The Swedes do not want to go to war with Germany. But they also know that Germany, amply occupied elsewhere, does not want to go to war with them.

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