Word: haakon
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...crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
Back up the ramp went the President's automobile. Aboard the King Haakon VII the little crew of freemen prepared for a shakedown cruise down the muddy Potomac River, for the hazardous stalking of U-boats in the North Atlantic, for the faraway hope of riding proudly into home port...
When strapping, hawk-nosed Prince Karl of Denmark was crowned King Haakon VII of Norway, 36 years ago, the crown, too large even for his Viking dome, slipped down over his ears. Superstitious observers whispered that this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women...
...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...