E-text prepared by Louise Pryor and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: There are many typographical and orthographical errors in the original. They are listed at the end of this etext. No corrections have been made. In the second part of the book lines of dashes are used to represent omissions in excerpts. There are represented in this etext by [-- -- --] or [-- --]. THE SWEDISH-NORWEGIAN UNION CRISIS A History With Documents by K. NORDLUND PH D. Upsala & Stockholm Almqvist & Wiksell Ltd Printed by Almqvist & Wiksell Ltd, Upsala 1905 Author's Introductory Remarks. The following work is intended to give an insight into the Swedish-Norwegian Crisis. It has been the Author's endeavour to attain this object, partly by a condensed account of the events of the last few years, partly by a collection of suitable extracts from documents referring to this crisis. Choice in the last items has been confined to the most important ones. Touching the Consular negotiations only the discussions on the most disputed points are given. In dealing with some of the statements in Nansen's brochure the author does not intend a exhaustive criticism of the said work, but has only tried to show, by a few instances, the treatment pure and distinct facts have been submitted to, in these days, by Norwegian agitation. The number of instances could be multiplied many times over. If the following representation has caught the tone of present feeling in Sweden, it must be excused. The Author is, however, convinced that this has not disadvantageously affected his account of the actual facts of the case. Upsala. August 1905. _The Author._ CONTENTS. A. History. Sid. I. Reasons for Union Crisis. Development of Sweden's and Norway's different reform programmes 1-8 II. Contents of the charge of 1885 in Sec. 11 of Sweden's Constitution. First development of Consular Question. Union Committee 1895-98 8-19 III. Consular Committee of 1902. Birth and contents of Communique 19-28 IV. Treaties on the identical laws 29-38 V. Norwegian accusations caused by breakdown of Consular Negatiations 38-46 VI. Development of Crisis this year until the time of the Extra-Ordinary session of Swedish Riksdag 46-64 VII. Supposed and real causes of Norwegian revolution 64-67 B. Acts. 1. Acts from Norway's "Grundlov" 71 2. Acts from "Riksakten". (Special laws relating to Union) 72