Morris tribune., 1913-02-21
Of INTEREST TO
SCANDINAvIANS
Recent Happenings In This
Country and Abroad.
PEACE CENTENARY PROPOSED

Sweden, Norway and Denmark Have
Had No Wars Since 1s14-ReVIew
Of Reviews Analyses Governments
Of the Three Scandinavian coun-
trIes-eeneraI Gorte Of the Danish
Army Makes Successful Flight.
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The Minneapolis Journal recently
contained an editorial which Is here
reproduced because of it's historic ten
denotes. 1t deals with the advance
meRt of all three Scandinavian cOun-
tries and calls attention to the fact
that Swedes, Norwegians and Danes
in the United States can well unite in
1914 in the observance of the great
event to which attention is so patriot
ically referred to in the following
editorial: THE proposed celebration
next year of a century of peace be-
tween England and the United States
recalls the fact that the Scandinavian
countries might also celebrate a SINH
lar centenary in 1914. A hundred
years will then have elapsed since the
peace between Sweden, Denmark and
Norway has been broken. The Ma,
poleonic wars, which involved all Eu-
rope, did not pass the kingdoms of
| the North by. Bernadotte, one of Ma
poleon's maTshals, had established
himself in Sweden, where adoption by
q childlesg king had assured him sue
cession to the throne. He had quar-
relied with his old chief and had at
tached Sweden to the anti-Napoleonic
combination. Denmark, on the other
hand had allied herself with France.
Thus it happened, when peace came
finally to be declared, after the defeat
of France and her allies, that Dem
mark was forced to cede Norway to
Sweden. The Norwegians, however.
resisted the arrangement and succeed
ed in getting their Eidsvold constitu-
ton recognised and the act OF union
with Sweden approved, whereby Nor
way had her own government but I'M
der Sweden's king. The peace thus
ARRANGED in Scandinavia has endured
to this day and gives every promise OF
permanence. The Union Crisis in
1905, when Norway broke away from
the act Of union and chose Danish
: prince for her king, strained her re
lations with Sweden almost to the
breaking point, but fortunately calm
'counsels prevailed and the agreement
reached at CARLSBAD In the fall of that
J year solved the question at issue. The
resentment in Sweden against the
precipitancy Of Norway in 1905 was
partly directed against the Danes,
who were accused OF encouraging the
revolution and who certainly fur
nished q founder for the new royal
house of Norway. But the seven years
that has passed have greatly Modified
, this feeling In Sweden. Her states
men, as well as those of Denmark and
Norway, recognize the fact that the
danger to Scandinavia comes from
without and not within. The pressure
J, of the great powers on three sides OF
, Scandinavia liz such as to compel the
three brother kingdoms to make com.
mon cause. Denmark, dsSpoiled OF
Schleswig- Holstein by Germany, fears
her powerful neighbor. Sweden
which was compelled to give up Fin
land to Russia, watches the great
white bear apprehensively. Norway
too, knows that her ice free ports or
the Atlantic are coveted by Russia
whose westernmOst boundaries are
F., but few miles away from the sea
England Is friendly to all three of the
kingdoms and there is nothing to feal
I on that side. Under the circumstances
1t is not surprising to find the three
kingdoms recently concluding ar
agreement under which each binds
itself to enter into no engagements
: open or secret, with any Of the grea
powers. This announces to the work
the absolute neutrality of Scandinavia
It serves notice on the triple alliance
and the triple entente that Scandina
4 via refuses adherence to either. Will.
it is scarcely tantamount to an ALI
ance of Sweden, Denmark and Nor
way, it paves the way to an ultimat
: alliance-such an alliance as the grea
Btornsterne Biornson dreamed OF AM
pIophesied. At any rate, the thre
: will present a united front in thei
: foreign relations. Under these Gil
cumstances a celebration of the CON
pletion of century Of peace in tn
North would be highly appropriate
In America, where those of Scandinf
:. Wan birth long since buried all fee
! ings Of hostility or jealousy in thei
common American citizenship, such
!. celebration could be held under tn
p happiest OF auspices"
J. !. : :.
/, Professor Henrik Schuck, rectc
n,agnifcus of Upsala university, ha
. been made member of the Swedis
Z academy, thus becoming one of tn
o. famous eighteen members" OF tn
D. distinguished organization, which
the greatest and most learned bod