Word: haakon
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June 10. Norway capitulates and Haakon flees to England...
...friendly attitude of King Haakon...
...later gaunt King Haakon ordered the capitulation of what was left to him of Norway. With Crown Prince Olav and his Government he abandoned a fugitive existence in the fir and birch woods of Lapland for questionable security in England, there to "carry on the war" against Hitler in an as yet unannounced manner. "The necessity of war forced the Allies to gather all their forces on other fronts, where all soldiers and all materials are necessary," explained Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht in a broadcast from far northern Tromso...
...Driven at last from his country, Haakon VII was reported a refugee in England...
...forces in Frances continued to sweep toward Paris and in the north it was reported reliably that the Allies abandoned the Narvik region of Norway to Germany. King Haakon and officials of the Norwegian government fled to England...