Show KING OSCAR HERO OF PEACE sweden and norway honor the memory of monarch who kept countries t ries from warfare on the Non rw egian frontier the other daa da there was dedicated in the pres ence of 0 10 persons a SN swedish edish norwegian monument to peace St strange rangel happenings when nhen almost within hear bear ing cannon were nere roaring musketry men dang in agonies nations ir wrestling estling in fratricidal hate yet not so strange after all but in won derfall der full striking contrast only a few sears ago se EC ceded from union with sweden sneden king oscar of the bernadotte dynasty denasty di nasty a min man of oc gentle soul patron of 0 religion and art ind peace sat on the throne it N was as in his pon power er to launch the a armi rm ot of sweden sieden against the Nors horsemen eruen numeric numerically all inferior inith ith a word of comm command and lie he might liae haie drenched two to countries in blood and tears there were not wanting Nin ting those who ho counseled the shedding ot of blood the irbit ot brute force the rending ot of families the ure wrecking ching of 0 homes the learing bearing ot of miseries cries on lomen and children for these are the meanings of 0 war but eliut the gentle old man kept the peace norna jorwa became a separate kingdom in 1903 1905 VII was mas elected ruler of norway in 1907 Os cai I 1 died and gustat gustaf V became mon men arch rh of sweden no word nord of 0 war or hate has divided the two countries separated on lines the parted in the le hae kept the tha peace and now non thea the hao erected a peace monument to commemorate the peaceful parting made possible by the heroism of oscar I 1 for it took ine hei to lace the dai amion of his kingdoms the humiliation of dethrone ment by half his subjects and to re slat the entreaties ot of men to whom force and bloodshed are standards C f right the man who could thus keep the peace decenes to be ba held in grateful remembrance by the entire world detroit free press |