NORWAY'S DECISION BREAKS SCANDINAVIAN POLICY
Recjeived Sunday, 10 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 20. The meeting of the three Scandinavian Premier.i in Oslo liad put an end to tlje attenipt to create a joint Seaildi navian foreign* aiul defence policy, ac cording to the Daiiish newspaper Ber lingske Tidende quoted by Reuter 's Copenhagen correspondent. The chair man of the Danish. Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Julius Bonihalt, said he regretted that the possibilities of a Scandinavian Defence Pact nuist be .abandoned following Norway's dec.ision to go her own way and join the Atlantie Pact. Reuter 's Oslo correspondent says theXorwegian Labour Party Congress, after a speech by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Lange, provisi6nallv agreed that Norwav must try to solve her security problems in binding cooperation with the Western democracies. A Congress commuhique said the vote was a trial oue. The Jinal voting will talce plaee tomorrow.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 February 1949, Page 5
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