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uanimously [[** sic…]] and without a debate, an annual sum to the
international peace-bureau at Berne. The same year, the Storthing
began to vote, in its annual budgets, a sum to the president
of the Norwegian branch of the interparliamentarian league, as
secretary’s salary, etc. In the same way, the Storthing in 1895
voted 2000 kr. to the interparlamentarian bureau at Berne, after
a request had been made at the inter-parliamentarian [[** sic, plutselig bindestrek]] conference
at the Hague in 1894 to the countries represented in the league,
to try to raise a suitable contribution towards defraying the expenses
of the bureau. In 1898, the Storthing also resolved to pay a regular
annual subscription to the above-mentioned inter-parliamentarian
bureau. Finally, in 1899, the Storthing voted 50,000 kr. to the
inter-parliamentarian conference, which held its meetings in August
of the same year, in the Norwegian capital.
It is only necessary to mention these grants by the Norwegian
Storthing to show how firmly and decidedly the Norwegian people
have taken up the great cultural idea, which at length, following
the initiative of the Czar of Russia, in 1899 led to the
international Peace Congress at the Hague. It is needless to say that
the feeling of the Norwegian government in this matter has been
one with that of the nation.
In Norway, with her large fleet, which carries the Norwegian
flag into all the ports of the world, special attention has always
been paid to the deliberations of the congresses with regard to the
protection of private property at sea in time of war (Proceedings
of the inter-parliamentarian Peace Conference at the Hague, 1894).
The public proceedings in Norway, however, have turned upon
arbitration treaties and their realisation.
It is also as a special recognition of the services rendered by
the Norwegian Storthing to the peace question, that a Swede,
Dr. A. Nobel, has, in his will, commissioned the Storthing to
award the annual prize he has offered out of his large fortune
for the best work, or the most meritorious action towards the
furtherance of the peace question.
It is needless to say that there is also a general Norwegian
peace association (Norges fredsforening), which, with its various
branches, works in accordance with the peace associations in all
other countries, which have their common organ in the previously
mentioned international peace bureau at Berne. They work by
means of meetings, and through the press.
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