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However, the report of the committee was
thrown out by eighty-eight votes against
eighty-three.
Herr Hedin got his way. He has always
been the consistent opposer of the active friends
of peace; and this time he has besides won
the gratitude even of our Government organ,
Nya Dagligt Allehanda, which calls his speech
glittering; meaning that upon this resolution
“there was no need to waste many words,”
and continues thus:—
“The resolution is worthy of notice, because it shows the
return of the Chamber to a sounder perception of this
question. It seems at last to recognise the extravagance of the
expectation certain fanatics entertain of bringing about a
lasting peace by so apparently simple a means as a tribunal
of arbitration. We have indeed, as Herr Hedin reminded
us, now had experience ourselves of how unsatisfactory this
can be; and it certainly appears that they must be lacking
in common sense who would question the justice of the
Foreign Minister’s reminder, that arbitration cannot be
appealed to when a nation’s political freedom or
independence is touched by the issue.”
I may here beg leave to calm the ruffled
feelings of the honourable Government organ
by bringing to remembrance the lesson,
otherwise applicable also, which our dismembered
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