Word: haakon
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...Life. To King Haakon in London, Norwegian underground leaders addressed this appeal...
...Yugoslavia, in the light blue uniform of his air force. Other limousines brought the witnesses: Britain's George VI, the bridegroom's godfather, and Greece's George II, the bride's uncle. Among the guests: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Norway's King Haakon, Holland's Queen Wilhelmina...
Sweden might be asked to neutralize the Narvik area to hold back the Allies in return for a German promise to leave the earth unscorched. That could be done only with the approval of the British and of exiled Norwegian King Haakon...
...Skagerrak. Angry notes passed over the sinking of two Swedish submarines Ulven and Draken, in Swedish territorial waters. The insult direct was implicit in the appointment of Baron Johan Beck-Früs as Minister to the exiled government in London of Norway's valiant old King Haakon...
Lacking food, the Danes still had a king. On his 72nd birthday, Sept. 26, Christian, the elder brother of Norway's Haakon, sent a curt answer to Hitler's flowery message of good will. The answer: "Thank you, Christian, Rex." This week Christian lay injured by a fall from his horse* and the Nazis had applied new pressures to make Denmark a "model province" of the Third Reich...