Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...70th birthday, Norway's King Haakon sent a present to ex-Minister to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman: the Great Cross of St. Olaf, Norway's highest decoration...
...Theater in Oslo were set on fire, bombs were tossed into a university building and into the House of Parliament. When arch-quisling Quisling stepped toward a balcony to receive the crowd's plaudits, the searchlights went out. Someone had cut the cables. Thirty-three friends of King Haakon were taken as hostages, including the King's physician and a onetime foreign minister...
Britain's Commando raids may have been undertaken partly as morale builders, but Haakon VII's German-hating subjects seem sold on the theory that Commando forays are preludes to an Allied invasion of Europe. Norse cooperation with the raiding parties is so flagrant that homes of persons identified with these invading shock troops are burned, their male relatives arrested...
...symbol of imminent collapse, came last week when two monarchs, Peter of Yugoslavia and George of Greece, hobbled far away from their thrones. Each uttered as he fled the anguished formulas of determination-echoes of words spoken in varying degrees of clarity by other monarchs in other defeats, by Haakon, Leopold, Wilhelmina, Boris, Carol...
...possible that Wilhelmina and Haakon prefer to let their people starve. More probably, however, their feelings have been silenced by their British hosts. The French Ambassador has shown concern which we cannot overlook...