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In an address upon the importance of the
Sound to the North, given to the National
Economic Society, Mr. Bajer pointed out that
so long as the Sound and its coasts were not
rendered inviolate, military devastations will
be carried on in and around the strait by
belligerent powers; also that the facts that the
Sound is not Danish only, but Swedish also,
and that Sweden has a common foreign policy
with Norway, make it probable that it may the
sooner be understood to be for the European
interest that all three northern kingdoms
should be simultaneously neutralized, and not
one of them only.[1]
In consequence of Mr. Bajer’s indefatigable
zeal for the united co-operation of the northern
kingdoms in the cause of peace, this idea has
gained many influential adherents in foreign
countries also; and on his proposition, two
international congresses, Geneva, Sept. 16th,
1883, and Berne, Aug. 6th, 1884, unanimously
accepted the following resolution, which in its
general meaning was adopted by the First
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