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...began patrolling Oslo streets. But there was no trouble until the Nazis noticed that hundreds of Norwegians were wearing flowers in their buttonholes and tried to pluck some of them out. Then arrests and riots began. In the center of the town be-flowered crowds gathered, sang the national anthem and the royal song. Hastily the Nazis chased flower sellers off the streets and padlocked all flower shops. There were far too many flowers. In each flower was hidden a razor blade...
...Doctored Anthem...
...wants his national anthem doctored to soothe Nazi ears? We've got to win this...
...Private Shearer was no radio engineer. He thought he was off the air. Leaning back, he murmured into a live mike an anthem of his own: "Thank the Lord. H. V. Kaltenborn...
...Private Shearer, frantically trying to modulate the pundit's inexplicable emphases, Kaltenborn sounded "like a conga drum; one, two, three . . . boom!" After 13 minutes the pundit was through and the private was exhausted. The announcer ushered Kaltenborn gracefully off the air, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem...