SUMMARY IN ENGLISH
CONTRA # 4 2004
Waste of Money in Big Government
by Allan C. Brownfeld
Waste of money in Big Government, by Allan C. Brownfeld
Ten years ago House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared ”We Republicans
will make governemnt smaller and smarter”. That’s not the
way it turned out. The budget for fiscal 2005, proposed by President Bush,
is almost a trillion dollars bigger than at the time when Gingrich proclaimed
the ”Republican Revolution”.
Bismarck – master builder or undertaker?
by Tommy Hansson
Contra starts a new series on European history. In connection with visits
at important places in the history of Europe our correspondent introduces
European history in the light of the struggle between democracy and dictatorship.
The first article in the series is a visit at Friedrichsruh close to Hamburg
in Northern Germany. Here is the estate of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck,
including his large mausoleum. In 1945 count Folke Bernadotte had his
headquarter here.
Social democratic women the main advocates of Swedish sterilization
policies
by C G Holm
In 1934 Sweden introduced its infamous sterilization laws, leading to
the sterilization of some 63,000 Swedes during the following four decades.
Many Social Democrats wanted to go even further in order to protect Sweden
from ”breeding inferiour stock”. The most active advocates
of this policy were the Social Democratic women. The only one firmly standing
up against the proposals was Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, member of the
nobility, respected judge, former Prime Minister, conservative and generally
regarded as a reactionary. Mr Hammarskjöld was the father of Dag
Hammarskjöld, who later became Secretary General of the United Nations.
The former Prime Minister was one of only two members of parliament that
opposed the decision of 1934.
Sven Stolpe fired at the leftists
by Tommy Hansson
Author Sven Stolpe was at the later part of his life as a punchbag for
the Politically Correct. He was conservative, catholic, well educated,
eloquent and very much against socialism. He was everything that the Politically
Correct despise.
Dr Stolpe’s long and rich life makes him one of the foremost in
Swedish culture of the last century.
The chemophobia of environmentalism
by Tommy Hansson
We continue to scrutinize the myths of environmentalism. In this issue we look into the excessive fear of using chemicals.
