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It is interesting to know that a hundred years before the well-known attempt of Great Britain to stop corn on its way to the French, on the ground ridiculed by Woolsey, that the republic had incorporated its whole laboring class in its army, a similar attempt was made under Queen Anne, though not on the same ground, but rather as an appeal ad misericordiam. Henry Boyle, Secretary of State, wrote on April 12,1709, to Daniel Pulteney, then British Minister in Denmark (see Record Office, Foreign Entry Book, 4) as follows.

SWEDEN UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE TO A CREDIBLE NEUTRALITY POSTURE, AND SWEDISH DEFENSE EXPENDITURES ARE CONSIDERABLE. THE COMPREHENSIVE NATURE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF SECURITY ARE STRESSED. SWEDEN SHARES STRONG ECONOMIC LINKS WITH THE WESTERN ECONOMIES. AS A RESULT OF AFFLUENCE AND THE RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE WESTERN ECONOMIC CHANNELS TO THIS PROSPERITY, OFFICIAL NEUTRALITY HAS INTERFERED ONLY MARGINALLY WITH THE PRIVATE PURSUIT OF COMMERCE AND FINANCE. THIS LIBERAL ATTITUDE TOWARD INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES HAS INCLUDED ITEMS OF STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE, SUCH AS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, ARMS, AND AMMUNITION. SWEDEN SHARES WITH OTHER NORDIC NATIONS AN INCLINATION FOR MARKED VISIBILITY IN GLOBAL ISSUES AND ARENAS, HOPING TO PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL CHANGE IN NORTH-SOUTH ISSUES AND IN EAST-WEST NEGOTIATIONS. THE CLASSIC DEFINITION OF SWEDISH FOREIGN POLICY DOCTRINE IS FREEDOM FROM ALLIANCES IN PEACE AIMING FOR NEUTRALITY IN WAR.