Note 27:1 — III.
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In the debate in the Storthing on April 27:th 1904 Mr Carl Berner said he had heard that Mr Blehr’s explanation in the Storthing respecting; the Communiqué before its publication was made known to the Swedish government: that the latter, neither previously, nor later on, had made any objections to it. To this State Secretary Michelsen sharply replied, that »Mr Blehr’s explanation was only the explanation of the Norwegian government on the subject of the Communiqué.»