Thepeasant armament support march of 1914 (Swedish:Bondetåget) was a demonstration primarily ofSwedish farmers on February 6, 1914 inStockholm.[citation needed] It resulted in a constitutional crisis triggered by theCourtyard Speech held by KingGustav V to the marchers atStockholm Palace. 30,000 participated in the march according toBritannica.[1]
The support march was a conservative response to the defence policies of Swedish Liberal Prime MinisterKarl Staaff. As the tensions of the arms race preceding theFirst World War grew stronger, Staaff's decision to slow down Swedish armament was met with great discontentment by conservatives.[2]
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.[3] Though called a farmers' march, participants came from a wider range of conservatives. The conservative explorer and writerSven Hedin also participated in the preparation of the march by writing theCourtyard Speech.