Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haakon of Norway turned 74; Oslo's celebrating citizens celebrated his 70th for good measure. Because the Germans had arrested people who wore birthday boutonnieres then, they all wore them for his 70th this year...
...Germans' girls" in Norway, fearing that her head would be shaved for fraternizing with Nazis during the occupation, carried her appeal for mercy to the throne. In a letter addressed to King Haakon VII she admitted that she had been "associating with" a German soldier whom she professed to love very much. Now repentant, and suddenly mindful of the consequences, she told the King her prayer for salvation: "Dear God, suffer me not to be shaved. If you cannot prevent men from inflicting this shearing upon me, prevent my soul from being clipped." She hoped for royal understanding...
...Haakon VII, 73, King of Norway, was moved to tears at his first meeting in six years with his brother, Christian X of Denmark, planned to remain in Copenhagen for this week's feast of lights on Christian's 75th birthday...
...main item on the daily (eight-hour) fare. ABSIE broadcast the news in seven languages, and also presented at dictation speed a special program of news for the use of the underground press. ABSIE puffed up its straight news reports with talks by such exiled leaders as King Haakon and Jan Masaryk...
Canny Premier Nygaardsvold at once announced his Cabinet's resignation, to take effect when King Haakon returned on June 7, fifth anniversary of the King's flight to Britain, 40th anniversary of the birth of modern Norway...