Peasant armament support march

[citation needed] It resulted in a constitutional crisis triggered by the Courtyard Speech held by King Gustav V to the marchers at Stockholm Palace.

[1] The support march was a conservative response to the defence policies of Swedish Liberal Prime Minister Karl Staaff.

As the tensions of the arms race preceding the First World War grew stronger, Staaff's decision to slow down Swedish armament was met with great discontentment by conservatives.

[3] Though called a farmers' march, participants came from a wider range of conservatives.

The conservative explorer and writer Sven Hedin also participated in the preparation of the march by writing the Courtyard Speech.