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This was too much for Germany. Though Quisling's name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor, though his domestic political backing had proved illusory, he appeared the only possible German straw man. Press criticism of him was forbidden and Alfred Nilsen, editor of the Norwegian Labor Party's Arbeiderbladet, was jailed for expressing "degrading judgments" of "an exponent of National Socialism...
...Poles and Jews were forbidden to marry, allegedly because of an acute housing shortage, actually to prevent population increase...
Record of Stewardship. In Poland, forbidden ground to foreign journalists since September 1939, the first year of Nazi stewardship resulted in two balance sheets. One, a glowing account of pacification and reconstruction, originated in Cracow, headquarters of the German Gouvernement Général. It announced that...
...campaign year. Besides, Mr. Roosevelt, more forehanded than Jefferson, had thought to arm himself. Attorney General Jackson in an opinion had found that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, was not only authorized to provide bases to defend the U. S., he was forbidden to "risk any delay." He also argued that the President had authority to dispose of naval vessels. And since no money was involved in the deal Congress did not have to be asked for an appropriation. Legal or not, the deal was done...
...they did in Brussels before Waterloo, British officers danced late in London last week. In Berlin there was no dancing. Dancing is forbidden in Germany as a frivolity out of keeping with war. In Britain they danced to show their nerve-and because they could not sleep. Berliners looked at the wreckage of their homes, remembered that they had been told their city was impregnable, said nothing. Londoners shook their fists at the sky. As sirens wailed and fires burned, as the war of mutual destruction gained fury, stolid Germans and the scarcely more volatile British alike wondered if this...