SESSION VI 297 Now, as far as Sweden is concerned, it occurs to ine that they are always expecting that somebody is rot going to respect their neutrality. ‘For some reason or another we had better be on the lookout because this one is going to hit us or that one is going to hit us. iT] . I quite agree with what Dr. Warren has said about Switzerland. It'a a phenomenon that's extremely hard to understand. It could be extremely important strategically, one would think, from the stand- point of Central European wars. Perhaps it has something to do with a multi-national composition which makes for a certain stability in terms of international relations, ‘Don't hit us because possibly you would hit somebody who is your first cousin if you do this." HEMLER: I think maybe you hit on the point when you said that Sweden might be afraid that someone may not respect their neutrality. They have seen this happen in Belgium, Holland, Denmark. These countries have all declared their neutrality at one time or another and have had it overrun. ROOT: [thick Swede1is a little special. They started because thev knew in the next war, being so close to the Soviet Union, their bordere would not be respected, they wouid ve overrun. But, in addition they had a technological incentive. The engineers developed avery simple and cheap way of drilling into atone with no danger of silicosis or splintering’ a one-man drill. So they started drilling into their own rock and found it cheaper to build a room by drilling a hole than by enclosing a space in air—heating is cheaper, mainten- ance simpler, no windows. Their fallout shelters pay for themselves. Saab is located underground entirely. Big oil deposits are all under- ground. Atomic energy is underground, They have an underground hotel which ca: .e converted into a hospital and lots of extra garage space. Soactually they don't need to budget for something which may or may not be used. They have a magnificent civil defense network which is a useful and paying proposition at the same time, MILLET: Maybe if we could learn how to burrov. economically into our rock in Manhattan, instead of going up into the air, we would be quite all right. TAYLOR: I think there are two other reasone that are quite im- portant. One of them is that Sweden, being a neutral country, is not