Word: haakon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King Haakon VII of Norway: "A proper Christmas cannot be celebrated by the Norwegians in Norway in chains or by Norwegians unable to spend Christmas in their own country with those they love dearest. . . . May peace, freedom and justice reign in Norway in the near future...
Norway was late in joining the squabble. Until last year it had only an unofficial 110-mile ring around the Pole, plotted out by Captain Roald Amundsen when he reached the bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...
...behave yourself I'll take your papa's picture off the olive-oil tins." Not the least significant of the incredible and terrible events of last week was that this gag should come true-in another land of another King. The Germans removed the likeness of King Haakon from all tins of the little sardines which Norwegians call brislings. To a seagoing fisherfolk, brislings were a symbol...
...masters of Norway also removed likenesses of the King's little grandchildren from the wrappers of a candy called Kong Haakon Konfekt. Not only did the Germans find it necessary to stamp out the people's allegiance to their King; other precautionary and repressive measures were taken last week. It was decreed that no farmer could go to the cities with out special permission from the authorities. This ruling virtually strapped thousands of loyalist Norwegians who fled the cities during the invasion. Persons unable to find employment, according to another ruling, "will be permitted to go to Germany...
...Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax were trying to appease Mussolini, De Man went to see Romains in Paris, told him of a scheme to have a peace conference called by one of the five sovereigns of northern Europe (Belgium's King Leopold, Norway's King Haakon, Sweden's King Gustaf, Denmark's King Christian, The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina). Four of them were to write to the fifth (Leopold) urging him to save the peace of Europe; then Leopold was to appeal to Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler. A reversal in world affairs would be achieved...