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Norway 
<1 The customs war with Spain and Portugal is still the most absorb¬ 
ing question in Norwegian politics. A “truce” of four months was 
concluded on December 2, a temporary treaty being then signed by 
the foreign minister of Spain and the Norwegian plenipotentiary 
at Madrid. In this treaty, which will last only until March 31, 1922, 
the two parties agree to treat each other as most favored nations, 
with the exception, however, that Spain is entitled to increase its 
minimum duties by 25 percent for Norwegian goods. Norway fur¬ 
ther undertakes to import during the four months from December 
to March 150,000 litres Spanish wine or liquor containing more than 
14 percent alcohol. This temporary agreement has had a rather 
cold reception in Norway, particularly in prohibitionist cir¬ 
cles. Prominent prohibitionist leaders like former Minister of 
Justice Johan Castberg, and Dr. Johan Scharfenberg maintain 
that the agreement is incompatible with the prohibition policy 
endorsed by the referendum of 1919, and they are advising the 
Storting not to accept the treaty. €J On December 10 the Nobel 
Peace Prize for 1921 was awarded by the Norwegian Nobel 
Committee to Hjalmar Branting, the Swedish premier, and Dr. Chr. 
L. Lange, the well known Norwegian pacifist, Secretary of the Inter¬ 
parliamentary Union. They receive about 60,000 Swedish kronor 
each. The decision of the Nobel Committee has met with general 
approval in Norway, where nobody has forgotten Mr. B ranting’s 
splendid work for a peaceable solution of the Norwegian-Swedish 
conflict in 1905. t| The trade agreement between Norway and Russia 
has already had some good results. The Soviet Government has 
released the three Norwegian sealing vessels which were seized in 
the White Sea last spring on the allegation that they were fishing in 
Russian territorial waters. The first Soviet ship visited Christiania 
in the beginning of December and returned to Archangel with a cargo 
valued at two and one-half million Norwegian kroner. €J Should 
Jesuits be allowed to enter Norway? This question may seem strange 
to Americans, but in Norway it is still vital.- The Constitution con¬ 
tains an article forbidding Jesuits to live in the country. It is not, 
however, easy to enforce a law of this kind in the twentieth century, 
and when a Jesuit theologian some months ago visited Christiania 
and made a public lecture at the Students’ Union, the police took no 
measures against him. The Department of Justice has now asked 
the church authorities if they have any objections to the “Jesuit- 
paragraph” being abolished altogether. The Church Department 
has replied that it has no objection. The same attitude is taken 
by the theological faculty of the University of Christiania, while 
the private theological faculty “Menighetsfakultetet” is of the 
opinion that the article should be retained. 
