 The Military Coordination Committee met the next day in London , and two days later the French plan was put forward . The Supreme War Council elected to send notes to Norway and Sweden on 27 December in which they urged the Norwegians and Swedes to help Finland and offer the Allies their support . Norway and Sweden rejected the offer on 5 January 1940 . The Allies then came up with a new plan , in which they would demand that Norway and Sweden give them right of passage by citing the League of Nations resolution as justification . The expedition troops would disembark at the Norwegian port of Narvik and proceed by rail toward Finland , passing through the Swedish ore fields on the way . This demand was sent to Norway and Sweden on 6 January , but it too was rejected six days later . 
