The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-30
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YIAT will Norway and Dem
\A/ mark do when Sweden joins
w Germany and her allies In
the present war? That In a
question which must have occurred to
every thoughtful reader OF those in
.ensely bcllicose cable dispatches
which have been reaching this oun
ny from Stockholm during the week
lust brought to a close. The m
cial relations of the United States with
Denmark and Norway are SO very
.arge. and have. moreover. developed
10 such a phenomenal degree since the
beginning of the international %confiag-
alton now in progress. that few in
America can afford to remain indiffer-
ent to this query.
In considering the matter there are
several things that 1t is well to bear
IN mind. The first and foremost Of
these is, that whereas popular SYM
pathy in Sweden has all along leaned
toward the Central Powers, public
sentiment in Norway and Denmark
has been still more strongly marked
in favor of the Powers of the Entente.
And whereas. to max use of the Eng
fish language in stockholm and else
where In the dominions of King Gus
tav has been during the past eighteen
months sufficient to invite unpleasant
attentions on the part Of the police
M virulent abuse and even physical
indignities on h part of any Swedes
within hearing. the German tongue
has been frowned upon in Norway ana
Denmark. At stockholm everybody
looks forward to an ultimate victory
OF the Kaiser. and in the same way all
their hopes for the future upon a vic
tory of Great Britain and her allies.
There are many reasons for this
condition of affairs. That the Danes
should pray for the overthrow Of En-
peror William is but natural. Fol- II
In only when the pledges Of the rulers
and leading statesmen Of England. oil
France and Of Russia are fulfilled
never TO rest until Prusslan military
terrorism is crushed. that Denmarl
can hope to recover her duchies y!
Schleswig and Holstein. which wer,
torn from her by Prussia and Austria
In 1864.
These two duchies had formed unit
then fully a third of the territory o.
the kingdom OF Denmark. They wer,
among the richest and most fertile o
her provinces, and ever since that time
that is to say for more than Atty years
the Prussians have been e~ndeavorinl
IN vain to TeutoniZe the people Of tn,
duchies. especially of Schleswig. Blu
the Schleswigers remain more in
tenseiy Danish than ever. and like tn,
people uf the Italian speaking
provinces of Austria yearn for the da,
OF redemption and for their reunion Z
the people OF their own race under
ruler of their W. nationality.
II must seem strange TO any impair
Tia student Of modern history tina
Prussia, having once acquired posses
sion of these " duchies by conaues,
should ave made no effort to ~reconcil
the people TO their lot and to win the.
loyalty to the Hohenzollern crown
But in e~ndeaNoring to Prussianize tn
duchies they have had only t
brutal force. To tyranny and to perse
there just as s~ignally as in Prussia
Poland and in Alsace-Lorraine.
The stories of the harsh treatmer
TO which Observation-Disclosures wer
subjected have always been n source {
bitterness and resentment to the Dane
on the other side of the border. The
have served To keep open the cru
wounds sustained by Denmark at II
hands of Prussia in 1864. and the resu