HE Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent, in a despatch last week, tried to chill the blood of that paper’s middle class readers by reporting that a Left-wing front had been formed in Scandinavia. It was inaugurated at a meeting in Copenhagen of Mr. C. H. Hermansson, chairman of the Swedish Communist party, Mr. Aksel Larsen, chairman of the Danish Socialist People’s party and Mr. Finn Gustavsen, chairman of the Norwegian Socialist People’s party. Burying their differences, the three
decided to wage a common campaign
for “the neutralisation of the North”
by the withdrawal of Denmark and
Norway from the North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation and disarming
of Sweden.
They pledged themselves to ob-
serve the rules of Western demo-
cracy and to accept the existence of
opposition parties if they were re-
turned to power. They also stated
their independence of Moscow.
Mr. Hermansson attacked Russia
by denouncing “that poison of
nationalism which can attack even the