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Unless altered by public pressure, of which there is plenty, Premier Hansson's and the King's decision to play the neutral game to its logical and perhaps tragic end seemed to mean taps for independent Finland. Norway was much too agitated about the Nazi-British battle over the Alt-mark last week (see p. 34) to think much about Finland. Denmark has no army to speak...
What will probably prevent this petty war is fear of a bigger one. Both countries are courting neutral Italy assiduously, as a sort of insurance. And Italy, herself looking for insurance, wants Rumania and Hungary to get together in a solid anti-Soviet Balkan bloc. Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion...
...this Altmark affair, international law was fractured. First, Great Britain argued that Norway violated international law when the Altmark was allowed to pro ceed through neutral waters with concealed prisoners of war. Moreover, said Britain, the Norwegian authorities obviously shut their eyes to the Altmark'?, true character. The British Admiralty, in ordering a raid in neutral waters, certainly was breaking international law right & left, regardless of its excuses. While Berlin snarled horrendous but vague threats of reprisal at both Britain and Norway, the London Times heartily observed that the Battle of Punta del Este would have lacked a fitting...
...when having thought the case over, will not acknowledge that it is in open conflict with the principles of which it has itself so many times proclaimed." The Foreign Minister's clincher: "There is no international rule at all forbidding a war power to transport prisoners through a neutral area, in so far as navigation itself is not illegal...
LONDON--Great Britain will not permit the use of Norweglan or other neutral waters by the German fleet, Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain declared in Parliament today, repeating the British charge of Norwegian negligence in handling the German prison ship Altmark...