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CHRONIQUE TRIMESTRIELLE 117
mittee for International Studies. He
was a man of outstanding character
and integrity and his death has been
much regretted.
On the lOth of December, the
birthday of Alfred Nobel, the
Peace-Prize for 1938 was awarded
the International Nansen Office for
Refugees and handed over to the
Pfesident of the Nansen Office, Mr.
Michael Hansson, who had come to
Oslo for the day. The ceremony
took place in the great hall of the
Nobel Institute in the presence of
the Prime Minister and Minister for
Foreign Affairs, Corps Diploma-
tique etc.
The chairman of the Nobel
Peace-Prize-Committee, Professor
Fr. Stang, presided and after a short
mtroductory speech handed over to
hlr. Hansson the insignia of the
Ptize. Mr. Hansson then in his lec-
ture gave an exposé of the work ac-
complished by the Nansen Office
since 1930 and spoke of the future
w°rk for refugees. The old Nansen
Office will disappear from the lst
°f January 1939, but the work will
be continued and the name of Nan-
S£n can not die.
The Storting met again on Ja-
nuary llth to elect its officers.
There had been a good deal of dis-
cussion in the press as a result of
conflicting feelings in Norway after
the settlement at Munich (Vide “Le
Nord”, Vol. I, p. 384); and the
papers of the Farmers’ Party pro-
claimed that Mr. Hambro should
no longer be re-elected. In 1938 Mr.
Hambro was elected at the first
ballot with a vote of 80 (Conserva-
tives, Liberals, Farmers, Christian
People’s Party, 1 wild), the Labour
candidate getting 69 (one Labour
member being absent).
It was obvious that the Labour
Party had the decisive vote this time
and could get their candidate elected
if they wanted to. But when the
roll had been called on the llth,
the leader of the Labour group,
Mr. Stestad, declared, on behalf of
his party, that the Labour members
were going to vote for Mr. Hambro
as a protest against the nazi voices
that had been lifted against him in
the press. And Mr. Hambro was
elected at the first ballot with a
vote of 131 (Labour, Conservatives,
Liberals, Christian People’s Party,
1 wild and 4 members of the Far-
mers’ Party); 14 Farmer members
voting blank. A few days later Mr.
Hambro was unanimously re-elected
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee.
On the following day the session
was officially opened by the King.
In the Speech from the Throne and
in the King’s Report to the Storting
on “the state of Norway since last
report” certain items are of a more
general interest.
The year 1938 has been a good
year for Norway, although not