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withstand the efforts of the great powers to entice
or to threaten any of them to take part in war
as allies on one side or the other. Such a
treaty will, therefore, in great measure serve to
preserve the neutrality of the northern
kingdoms, and thereby their lasting independence.
This petition was dealt with in the Folketing,
March 27th, 1888. After a short discussion,
the following motion of F. Bajer was passed
by fifty votes against sixteen.
“Since the Folketing agrees with the wish expressed
in the petition, provided it is shared by the other States
without whom it cannot be carried out, the House passes
on to the order of the day.”
In his little paper: On the Prevention of
War by Arbitration, F. Bajer writes:
“It may certainly be granted, that a little State like
Denmark cannot well work at the creation of a European
tribunal of arbitration, so far as that means setting itself at
the head of a movement for inviting the other European
States to a Congress by which its creation shall be adopted.
“But a little State like Denmark can always do something
in the direction of arbitration between States. It can
bring the matter a practical step forward by applying first to
the other small States, especially to the neighbour States of
Sweden and Norway, and proposing to them that mutual
disputes shall in future, as far as possible, be settled by
arbitration when other means have failed. The relations
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