However, Brother Russell felt that the work in all Scandinavia should be directed from one office, a reason being that the world war made it difficult for the headquarters in America to keep in touch with the offices in other countries. The Danish Watch Tower of March 1916, therefore, announced that August Lundborg, who had supervised the work in Sweden since the turn of the century, would represent the Society in all Scandinavia.

The world war was over and the Society wanted to go back to the arrangement existing in Scandinavia prior to 1916, with one of its representatives in each country.

The new arrangement was introduced in 1921. Brother Lundborg would continue supervising the work in Sweden and Finland.