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nations ought not to be submitted for solution to
arbitration, it is of so much the greater moment
to try to get international complications settled
in this way, because they may swell up into
questions of the kind first named; since in any
case this means could be adopted as a last
resource in time of need. History knows of no
example of the destruction of a free nation by
the impartial judgment of arbitration.
Now it may well appear honourable on the
part of the free nations of the Scandinavian
peninsula that they should openly show to the
whole world that they are prepared (in full
harmony with King Oscar II.’s pacific
expressions in the speech from the throne to the
Riksdag and the Storting in 1890), for their
own part, in all international circumstances to
substitute justice for brute force,—and this
without compromising and meaningless limitations.
In the Swedish arbitration resolution, as well as
in the Norse, lies the road certainly to
efficiently carrying out the neutral policy so strongly
emphasized in the speech from the throne.
Besides the public gain, which a favourable
result in both Chambers would have been, a
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