The Archive · 1928

Norway and Municipal Seal

To the Editor of the ontt-CuiNA Dan News Sin,—With reference to the art fole published in your issue of the 14th instant, in which the follow= ing oceurs:—"Norway and Sweden were at that time one country, 8 not having occurred un-"<I bog to advise you that the first part of paragraph 1, of the Norwegian Constitution of May 17, 1814, which was.in force until, 1905, reads:—"The Kingdom of Norway is a free, autonomous, indivisible and independent country, united with Sweden under one King'

This also accounts for the fact that Norway and Sweden have always has separate flags and the Union Jack appeared in the upper eft hand corner in the Norwegian as well as in the Swedish flag before the separation in 1905, Norway has therefore not been represented in the Council's seal, the Swedish flag only is shown of the two, although the flags were just as different before the separation as they became after 1905.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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