Life in Sweden
Foreigners visiting Sweden have said flattering things about it. They have called it the land where demofracy has succeeded, the land of the middle way where extremes of any kind are uncommon, and they have named it a model state, according to Mrs. Brian Mason, wife of Dr. Mason, lecturer in geology at Canterbury University College. But Mrs. Mason thinks that Sweden’s strongest competitor for that title is Australia, or perhaps New Zealand. She does not suggest that Sweden is a Utopia, but it has developed a certain unity, a certain health that is. rare in the present period. The main natural resources, forests, mines and water-power have for centuries been controlled and owned by the State, and so well, she says, has the State looked after them, that it has been an examplé to private owners. In economic life there is a happy relationship between the State and private enterprise. Sweden has gained q measure of peace and decent living that will serve as a standard for much bigger nations, says Mrs. Mason, who was secretary to the Professor of Geology at the University of Stockholm where Dr. Mason was a post-graduate scholar. Mrs. Mason will tell more about Sweden in a Winter Course talk from 3YA on October 20.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 376, 6 September 1946, Page 19
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