L’Entrée de la Suéde dans la Société des Nations
Sweden's Entry into the League of Nations.

Author(s): Ernst Trygger
Subject(s): Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: It is enough to consider that, for more than a hundred years, Sweden has not taken up arms, to realize that the previous centuries of its history have made war odious and taught it to see ever more clearly in peace the only assured foundation of progress and national prosperity. In this regard, it can be said without exaggeration that in this country public opinion is almost unanimous. Sweden therefore provided a particularly favorable terrain for pacifist ideas which, during the decades preceding the Great War, spread with increasing force throughout the civilized world. Therefore, it‘s surprising that the Swedish left parties believed they could claim for themselves the exclusive monopoly of attachment to these ideas and represent the entire right, if not as the party of war, at least as indifferent. to the peaceful solution, through agreements or arbitration, of international disputes. There is reason to believe, it is true, that they would agree today to recognize that the differences existing between them and their adversaries related, in reality, not to the very idea of peace, but to the conditions for maintaining of national independence and sovereignty.

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