THALES TO LINNAEUS 23 



preparations were in full blast, a vast army 

 of Norwegians crossed the boundary line 

 into Sweden and met a Swedish army of 

 the same proportions. There was no blood- 

 shedding for both armies were unarmed. In 

 place of bayonets and needle guns they had 

 their wives and children. They fraternized; 

 they clasped hands; they tossed each other's 

 babies in their arms. From that moment war 

 was impossible. They carried neither the 

 national banner of Sweden nor of Norway. 

 Over both those great armies, now become 

 one, singing their songs of working class 

 solidarity, there floated the red flag of the 

 social revolution. 



