Show RUSSIAN REVOlUTION I KEPT KEPI THE SWEDES SIDES OUT OI UBy By United Press Preas WASHINGTON Dec Whatever Whatever military weakness they ma may have ha brought upon RUB Russia temporarily the revolution rt Isis who vho overthrew o Nicholas Romanoff performed one valuable service to ally ally- dour dom The They k kept Pt Sweden from an active e pro-German pro part In the war Diplomats here are almost unanimous on that thaL I They say ay that as pressure Increased gradually on all alt n neutrals Sweden finally would have haie been n forced Into the war I Russian Anti IR feeling ee n fostered by another an an- l I other Germanic nl queen t would h have e led her to the sIde aide of the kaiser But when hen the dynasty which despoiled I Finland and coveted eted a warm water port such as Sweden might easily supply fell sentiment shifted lifted An official de described the situation now the court is probably I pro German although quietly the cabinet cabinet cabinet cabi cabi- net Is lees KO toO and business men and the great masses ha I although gh they still J tl nurse I j Before the took look to tending flower gardens in monasteries all Sweden S I felt that an allied victory meant a whetting whetting whetting whet whet- ting of suspected Russian al appetite forS for S Scandinavian territory livery Every fry Russian Rusan move In Poland and Finland was watched with closest anxiety The Tile revolutionists' revolutionists declaration forno for forno forno no annexations and no indemnities helped oom Their action giving Poland nationality and dealing generously with Ith Finland aided far more Although a small power Sweden could give Von Yon Hindenburg or men in any move on Petrograd They would be used to winter campaigning Sweden claims to be hungry because of the allied embargo Possibly this Is so 80 Admittedly she has sent much food to Germany as well as s munitions It ha and Iron I ores from which Germany makes high j I I grade steel for the finer parts of guns and machinery Her lieI mission here asks to be allowed to I Import tons of grain of sugar O O of fodder r and OO of tAr fat S She will I not get t this while il tI tine the I United States or an ally can use it It I Recent elections apparently have ha fa favored favored fa- fa ored the allies Some unfriendly cabinet cabinet cabi cabi- net forces may be ousted i |