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may arise may be referred. The first chairman
of the society was S. A. Hedlund, who has long
laboured in Sweden for the spread of
information as to the efforts of the friends of peace.
The same year a Norwegian Peace Society
was formed, which, however, like the Swedish
sister association, has been apparently only
dead-alive of late.
This is the result, certainly in great degree,
of the slender interest taken by the cultivated
classes, who in general pose as either indifferent
or antagonistic to peace work; indifferent,
because, in ignorance of the subject, they look
upon organized peace effort as fanciful and
fruitless; antagonistic, because they see in these
efforts a hindrance to getting the national
defence strengthened by increased military forces.
As regards Norway, there are, however, signs
that a different view of things has lately begun
to make itself felt.[1]
In France the peace societies received
strength in 1884, through the foundation by M.
Godin of the Société de Paix et d’Arbitrage
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