dissolved on January 14, 1814 by the Peace of Kiel. The joint and absolute monarch of the two kingdoms, Frederik VI, ceded by this peace the kingdom of Norway to the king of Sweden. The Norwegians did not acknowledge this convention. On May 17, 1814 a national assembly which was convened at Eidsvold declared Norway to be an independent constitutional kingdom, and elected the former governor, Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, as king of Norway. The Holy Alliance would not hear of this, and Christian Frederik was forced to abdicate; but the free Norwegian constitution was recognised, and on November 4, 1814 Norway voluntarily entered into a personal union with Sweden. . When Frederik VI in 1814 ceded Norway to the king of Sweden he excepted from this cession the then Norwegian dependencies of Iceland, the Faroes, and West Greenland. In the years imme- diately following 1814 the Norwegian Storting and Government claimed of Denmark that these old Norwegian dependencies should be restored to Norway, but without result. In this connection it may be noted that in 1931 and 1932 Norway occupied two areas in East Greenland which she regarded as no-man’s land. By an award given on April 5, 1933 the Permanent International Court at The Hague decided that Denmark had the right of sovereignty over these areas. From the very outset the union between Norway and Sweden resulted in a marked disregard of 11