The peasant armament support march of 1914 () was a demonstration primarily of Swedish farmers on February 6, 1914 in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

. It resulted in a constitutional crisis triggered by the Courtyard Speech held by King Gustav V to the marchers at

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. 30,000 participated in the march according to Britannica.

Context

The support march was a conservative response to the defence policies of Swedish Liberal Prime Minister

Karl Staaff Karl Albert Staaff (21 January 1860 – 4 October 1915) was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer who served as the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1905 to 1906 and again from 1911 to 1914. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party from ...

. As the tensions of the arms race preceding the

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grew stronger, Staaff's decision to slow down Swedish armament was met with great discontentment by conservatives.

Organisation

The initiative of the march came from the landowner Uno Nyberg, and the organisation of housing and otherwise for the Swedish farmers that travelled to Stockholm for the march was carried out by the grocery shopowner J. E. Frykberg.''Gustaf V och hans tid 1907-1918'', Lindorm, Erik. 1979 {{ISBN, 91-46-13376-3 Though called a farmers' march, participants came from a wider range of conservatives. The conservative explorer and writer

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also participated in the preparation of the march by writing the Courtyard Speech.

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