If they do so, it means absorption.

If they remain, as they probably will, scared neutrals, they will none the less be our vassal states when the last gun has been fired." "And Norway and Sweden ?" Seaman looked down at the map and smiled.
"Look at them," he said.

"They lie at our mercy.

Norway has her western seaboard, and there might always be the question of British aid so far as she is concerned.

But Sweden is ours, body and soul.