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...Life. To King Haakon in London, Norwegian underground leaders addressed this appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fighting Hearts | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The King Takes a Wife | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Shadow over Sweden | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Hunger | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

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