";s:4:"text";s:4033:"[17], The panic lasted about a week. The war drained the Norwegian government financially. And it did rain: Arthur's Pass to Dunedin, The Otago Peninsula and Dunedin (7 pages), II. In the autumn of 1916 German submarines made their way to the Arctic Sea. [35] Nevertheless, the summer meetings between Britain and Norway, which resulted in the “Copper Agreement” on 30 August 1916, cut off Norway’s export of copper pyrites to Germany.
p.13). As an early promoter of arbitration, Norway had been at the forefront of promoting international cooperation and arbitration as a means to settle conflicts peacefully. However, the Norwegian government was reluctant to set up a central import agency controlled by the government, as Britain wanted in order both to reduce friction with the neutral states and to achieve more systematic control over German trade. [5] A 2017 Kremlin maritime threat assessment which was sent to President Vladimir Putin highlighted Norway as a perceived threat and therefore a potential cause of naval conflict. Thus, in 1914, Norwegian foreign policy was understood to be essentially trade policy, and the Norwegians were well aware that they were within the British sphere of influence. The book De ukjente krigerne: nordmenn i første verdenskrig (The Unknown Warriors: Norwegians in the First World War), published in 2014,[10] shows how the stories of these soldiers were told in Norwegian newspapers both during and after the war. / Brazier, Eirik / Teige, Ola. A recent article has described the numbers and After the short panic in August and a period of uncertainty in the autumn of 1914, unemployment decreased in 1915 and was remained quite low for the rest of the war. At the same time, there were rumors that the insurance premiums were going to increase and that the Anglo-French coal trade was in jeopardy. As negotiations between Great Britain and Norway were taking place in the spring of 1917, rumors were flying in Berlin about a British interest in establishing bases in Norway. Formerly there was a territorial dispute over the Barents Sea, but on 27 April 2010, Norway and Russia officially resolved the territorial debate. Some of this is quoted in Hunt's Fire and Ice: The Nazis Scorched Earth Campaign in Norway (2014) at Chapter 13. Even though US President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) had viewed Norway as a special case – he drew a distinction between Norway and other neutral countries – the negotiation of a trade agreement between the USA and Norway became difficult. Users are obliged to speak respectfully to the other participants in the discussion, readers and individuals referenced in the posts. Due to the economic precautions taken during the autumn of 1914, the government shifted towards new policies, intervening in the market in a way previously unknown. For a detailed description of the technologies, please see the Cookie and Automatic Logging Policy. As Patrick Salmon has stated, both “the Entente and the Central Powers were persuaded that they had more to gain from Scandinavian neutrality than from drawing the Scandinavian states into the war. Users are obliged abide by national and international laws. The treaty, rather than delimiting a clear frontier between Norway and Novgorod, created a buffer zone, the “common districts.” The buffer…, …of the strategic importance of Norway, and on April 9, the day after British minelaying began, the Germans suddenly seized the ports from Oslo to Narvik in a brilliant sea and air operation, and occupied Denmark by Blitzkrieg. the prisoners and camps. Please try again in a minute. See: Bendtsen, Bjarne Søndergaard: Neutral Merchant Seamen at War.