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ing the Swedish-German clearing
from the lst of July 1938 should
apply also to payments for goods-
exchange between Sweden and what
was previously Austria.
On March 29th the Swedish
Government, at the invitation from
the United States’ Government,
declared its willingness to be re-
presented on a commission for
facilitating emigration of political
refugees from Germany and Au-
stria, on condition that the proposal
gained general adhesion from other
States which had also been invited
to join. Affirmative replies having
been received from about thirty
States, the United States issued in-
vitations to a first meeting of this
international commission on July
6th at Evian, France, to which
Sweden at the beginning of June
appointed delegates.
During April, the last Swedish
consulate in Russia, at Leningrad,
was closed as a consequence of the
decision of the Soviet Government
that the number of foreign consu-
lates in the Soviet Union should be
on a parity with the number of
Soviet consulates in the respective
foreign countries. Sweden protested,
as did other countries, against the
validity of this thesis in internatio-
nal law and referred to the special
agreement of 1927 between Sweden
and the Soviet Union, but acceded
finally to the demand. The consu-
late in Leningrad had a long tradi-
tion, as it replaced the Swedish Le-
gation after the revolution and was
installed in the old legation build-
ing which still belongs to the Swe-
dish State.
The question of Sweden’s neu-
trality policy and the League of
Nations in connection with the
sanctions problem, has lately been
the subject of nation-wide interest
and loomed very large in public
discussions in the Riksdag, in the
Press and at public meetings. As
this matter is dealt with in another
place by the most competent au-
thor, it should be sufficient to
chronicle here the declaration on
behalf of the Government which
in February was made by Mr.
Undén at Geneva with regard to
sanctions. At the end of the debate
in the committee of twenty-eight,
he made the following statement
which he asked should be included
in the minutes:
»Should the Swedish Govern-
ment have to decide in casu its atti-
tude before the Committee — or
other organ of the League of Na-
tions — has given its opinion on the
problem raised during this discus-
sion, the Swedish Government will
consider themselves entitled to
adopt a line of conduct in conformi-
ty with the declarations made by