Paris, Feb, 22.
The speech delivered before the Storting by Norwegian Foreign Minister, Professor Halvdan Koht, can hardly be considered an answer to the British demand for the internment of the Altmark crew, diplomatic circles in Paris point out.
M. Koht's Nordic colleagues, who are to meet in Copenhagen on Saturday, are reported to be in favour of the German point of view. This, of course, is not surprising, for the Scandinavian countries are in a most delicate position owing to their military weakness before the German and Soviet threat.
The Allies, they continued, cannot accept an evolution, already noticeable, on the part of the Nordic States to transform their true neutrality into partiality towards one of the belligerents. d France, they concluded, are in agreement that Norway has practically lost the right to exercise her prerogatives in her territorial waters—Hav
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