A window of opportunity 1905

1923
Some officers had been present at the Allied occupation of the Ruhr during 1921. That wasn't much of an experience except in the logistics of moving such large forces into possibly enemy territory but they had been shown some Allied tanks and told that the German Army had also fielded some during the last year of the war.
Asking about countermeasures they were told of the effects of artillery and anti-tank guns. A valueable knowledge to bring back home where the Orlogs Værftet is asked to furnish AP-shells for use with the Army's 75mm guns; only because it being the standard field gun of the Army and cheaper than to manufacture or buy a specialized gun.






King Haakon certainly disliked the situation but this year a compromise was reached; to reflect the moderness of Norway and industrial progress the DNL Norwegian Airlines most modern hydroplane had been chartered for the use of the Royal Family thoughout summers busy scheme.
It certainly made an impression when landing in the Stockholm Archipelago where the Royals were gathering during early July for the cruise within sight of anybody on the quays of Stockholm – and there were many gathered at the occasion.
Lots of jounalists were also within the crowd supplying an ample number of photographs for their newspapers the day after. Three whitepainted Yachts with a floatplane in front did sell in volume.
If the use of the aircraft was news in itself King Haakon would once summers at an end once again remind Government of its pledge to supply him with a Yacht.

It wasn't just complaints of lack of space as the King had been unable to entertain many guests aboard the aircraft but also the initially cool reception Haakon had gotten from his brother Christian X of Denmark upon arrival at Stockholm as the Norwegian Government had been undertaking a new effort in getting not only access to Northeast Greenland but also declared it being a no-mans-land.
King Christian his Government and the Danish population or at least its press were furious at the Norwegian contesting the status of Denmarks hold on Greenland. To rub it in on his brother King Christian had made the Summers Royal Cruise initiate in Stockholm to the fury of the Norwegians and great delight of King Gustav V of Sweden.

Haakon demanded a solution to the Northeast Greenland issue and his Yacht.

1924
Though seen as a dove PM Berntsen during early January when Danish – Norwegian negotiations on Northeast Greenland seemed to get going decided to pressure the Norwegians to recant any demands.
The strategy backfired not because the Norwegians didn't budge they were about to though still wanted some concessions but because Stauning saw an opportunity to stir the waters argueing for a multilateral agreement to settle the issue by pulling the Swedes in to making it an inter-Nordic matter with the outlook to tie the Swedes to their neighbors so as keeping Sweden from looking to Germany. Stauning didn't make this reason official but it would surface later from his actions.
As the workers – employers tensions were as strong as ever matters got out of Berntsens hands losing what little backing of his own party and certainly that of the Conservatives ended up calling for elections.
Stauning and the Socialdemocratic Party wons elections big enough to form government with the tacit support of Radikale Venstre though it didn't enter government and Staunings being able to avoid both Venstre and Conservatives. (elections as OTL - a nice time to end the long reign of Berndtsen)

The first action of Staunings was to call upon the workers of Norway to pressure their politicians to reenter negotiations on Greenland.
Within a few weeks agreement was made admissioning Norwegians trappers to Northeast Greenland on license with all export to Norway going through two newly established customs huts set up in the area. Norwegian Government had under pressure from the King relinquished the major demands and accepted the settlement. The threat of general strike by the Norwegian Trade Unions fearing another war since independence also put much pressure on Government resigning following signing the agreement. (OTL the negotiations ended with agreement on Norwegian trappers acces to Northeast Greenland but didn't stop Norwegian "adventurism" - here a Danish change of Government and more focus on the area with the customs huts)

Stauning wasn't just addressing the workers of Norway he also turned to those of Sweden and Finland counting them as Nordic brothers and emphazising old Nordic unity and brotherhood and urging future disagreement among the Nordic nations to be solved by multilateral (Nordic) agreement. (as writting in an earlier post he did favour this but it didn't come into practice till the Hague arbitration court)
Of course there were Finn resentment of Swedes and Swedes resentment of breakaway Norwegians and Danish resentment of ageold defeat by the Swedes but in a modern world with an emerging new Russia as the Communist Soviet Union and a Germany not really showing which way it would be heading old resentment had to make way for new paths of unity. At least Stauning held the view.

Back at home Stauning then turned to the workers – employers conflict and worked out an agreement for the time being with Thomas Madsen-Mygdahl of Venstre and Emil Piper of Conservative parties to smooth out the conflict.
One real outcome of Staunings work had been to lay the foundations of a bridge spanning the Lillebælt to connect Jutland and Fyn; a work that would ensure lots of jobs locally and income for firms involved in building. Another was the ongoing negotiations with mainly Britain on export of Danish agricultural products – bacon, eggs and butter but also a trade agreement with Soviet Russia which always seemed to be on the brink of starvation. (mostly OTL then and later)

Stauning had a flying start at the League of Nations where he worked to enroll several smaller nations with the Oslo Protocol to ease trade among those nations but Stauning also tried to incorporate a stronger focus on Nordic and smaller states cooperation try to build a defensive league.
Part of Staunings scheme to enlist Central American States invited to the Oslo Protocol would be to establish a stronger trade unions network within the Danish West Indies and export that to the states of Central America. (more energetic Stauning but there were some attempt to enrol countries to the Oslo Protocol)

Stauning decided as part of the negotiations of a trade agreement to recognize the Soviet Union de jure still with the backing of the Radikale Venstre and proclaimed when asked by a journalist that it was his intention to abolish personal property which the right wing press adopted as their cry of the Socialdemocratic Party having gone Communist. (mainly OTL - right wing press strongly disliked that statement!)
Contrary to public belief Stauning wasn't adverse to defensive spending; Weimar Germany seemed to lean a little too heavily onto the Reichswehr for comfort; especially when you had rather recent experience of German aggression. (Stauning seemed to doing so around 1934 - ITTL he has much firmer ground and is out early)