The Archive · 1937

Norway Opposes Sanctions

Washington, Oct. 28.

The Norwegian Government Jopposed to the application of sanctions against Japan, or any other forceful measures by the League of Nations, in a conflict which has. become an actual war, M. Hvaldan Koht, Norwegian Foreign Minister, declared here yesterday.

Tt appears Norway will attend on condition only moral condemnation is expressed.

The Foreign Minister added that) "it is dificult for sanctions to be effective against a Great Power. Let us believe in preventive rather than in curative measures."

He also recalled the unhappy experience of the League in connection with sanctions—Bavas.

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