8. As a matter of fact the Swedish minister to France, Nordling, brought an indirect message from Goering to Reynaud on 19 May. (Nordling was in Stockholm on 10 May and saw Goering in Berlin on the fifteenth, arriving in Paris on the seventeenth.) On 26 May Goering met with another Swede, Dahlerus, a fervent partisan of an accommodation between Britain and Germany; at that time, however, their talks concerned the future of northern Norway and Narvik.