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powers are greater and more equally balanced
around the Scandinavian North than around
those two small continental States.
We have old friends in the Western powers;
we have gained a new friend in united
Germany; and by the neutralization of
Scandinavia we shall not only make friendship
with Russia, but Denmark will gain that of
Germany, perhaps causing the last-named
power to fulfil its duty to Denmark with
respect to North Sleswick, seeing that it need
no longer fear that its small neighbour would
ever be forced into an alliance with a powerful
enemy of Germany.
But it is not only the political interests of the
powers which would be advanced by the
neutralization of Scandinavia.
In the course of the last ten years
world-wide traffic has made an unheard-of growth and
connecting links between nations have been
formed in many regions. As an example of the
effect of these we may mention that even thirty
years ago the normal freightage for corn was
50–60 shillings sterling per ton, from the Black
Sea to North Europe; but the freightage from
California and Australia to Europe, now, hardly
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