Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haakon Hawk...
Somewhere in the snow-blanketed mountains of eastern Norway, north of Oslo, King Haakon VII and his Government found sanctuary last week. The fugitive Government released in Stockholm a White Book telling how King Haakon was on the verge of making a deal with his "protectors" last fortnight which would have put the Allies in the position of invaders instead of saviors, how it fell through because Hitler redoubled his demands...
Sweden's dynasty, like Sweden's people, was last week in a grim predicament. King Christian of Denmark, the father-in-law of Gustaf's granddaughter, is now a German puppet; and Christian's brother, Haakon of Norway, was a target for German bombs and bullets. While Norwegians were fighting for their lives and freedom, Swedes, their closest national relatives, dared not go to their defense. But this week as Nazi warplanes swarmed over Sweden King Gustaf sent a stiff protest to Berlin...
Minute Men. What was now left of Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital...
...lakes, Vaner and Vatter. With their command of the air, their superior arms (automatic rifles against old 6.5-mm. Kraag-Jörgensens, for which the Norse can get more ammunition only from Sweden or the U. S. ), they should be able soon to take southern Norway. Unless King Haakon would order nonresistance, the Nazis promised "martial law," the Gestapo, the death penalty, confiscation, destruction, starvation, the whole bag of tricks displayed in Poland...