Show SCANDINAVIA VIA IN IN 1 WAR IVAR TOPIC OF 1 M w U U. S. S MINISTER M Sweden S cdell Norway Noray NoI r and Den Den- y r al l. Find It Hard lIard to Real Re- Re flan I Neutral al Sa Says Egan LIVE LITE TN tiT T SHADOW SHADO 0 OF r HUN T COLOSSUS Ji ift of United States Into V War ar Made Mace Present resent Federation Possible New Kew ew York Feb 21 J. Dr Maurice F. F E Kan fian an United States minister to lo Denmark Denmark Den Den- mark today addressed the tho American Americana the tho poa po- po a 1 a academy of oC arts and atHI letters on of tho the Scandinavian an nations in inthe tb th the world war Dr DrEgan lan Egan recently re- re tri tt ned fled to the t States to rc I 1 Jon Illness sDI s. s 1 aCe aYr from the effects erects of a long I the beginning begin begin- from Dr DI Dt Egan Igan said ald e that ning nm- of the war var Sweden Norway a and nd t l Denmark had maintained neutrality 1 tH extreme difficulties After hIn having hay hav In ing sp spent nt ten years on the German frontier he could see sec ce how Americans l had misunderstood tho the lews s and topes hopes of these n nations llon America he declared i I a big free countr country apart from rom an any ofner orner and with it its own institutions the thc power powel to maintain them while three small Scandinavian lan nations I hiV Five lived lI and arc are living Jiving under tinder the tho I constant shadow shado of or a ruthless colossus Sw Sweden den he said always has hns been In Inclined In- In r dined to bo bl pro-German pro Norway orwar al- al al always always I W ways S 'S has been anti Norway Norway Y loves 4 n England ingland and Is Iser er very friendly to America When the war opened the three nations nations na na- were at heart opposed to each ancient and other The quarrel was h lic hereditary t dhar There was no chance of until the Scandinavian federation an and United States entered the war Sweden war Sweden no er longer was menaced b by Russia Norway Norway Nor Nor- way way- 3 was strong and Independent enough h to fight ht and little Denmark was almost ready really to acc accede de to German Germanys Germany's g terms American merl an Motile Before the war Denmark's best cus- cus was England But nut she sho export exported ell fuch of or her foodstuffs to Germany German as well Germany German lately has been sending sending send in ing her coal coat and potatoes to Denmark and saying In n spite of oC our Impoverishment wo we send you OU what we can while tho the allies Including ln the great t wealthy strong America arc are trying trying- to starve you ou Mr Ir Egan warned his hearers that the wealth culture and efficiency of or the United States Slates have ha been so exploited In l- l Europe that it was difficult to make the he small Scandinavian lan nations understand understand understand under under- stand Its purpose in going into the war The severe sc embargo he n added ded has made Scandinavia suffer acute acutely and the blockade preventing pre the three countries from r m trading with belligerents I has astonished them I |