Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later gaunt King Haakon ordered the capitulation of what was left to him of Norway. With Crown Prince Olav and his Government he abandoned a fugitive existence in the fir and birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...forces in Frances continued to sweep toward Paris and in the north it was reported reliably that the Allies abandoned the Narvik region of Norway to Germany. King Haakon and officials of the Norwegian government fled to England...
...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...
...British soldiers, but French Chasseurs Alpins ("Blue Devils"), gave Haakon continued hope for Narvik. Also on hand was a contingent of Poles. The French cruiser-minelayer Emile Berlin escorted them north and got bombed a bit doing...
...After being smuggled hither & yon through the mountains, narrowly escaping capture, Norway's remaining gold reserve (much of which had already been exported before the invasion began) .was spirited safely away from Molde in a British warship at about the same time as King Haakon. It went to vaults in Great Britain. Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in London and Paris last week to take counsel and to call back exhortations to the Norse, announced that Norway had purchased for her stand in the north "huge quantities" of supplies and munitions from the British, enough grain to feed her soldiers...