Word: haakon
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...Norway, indomitable old King Haakon, a refugee within his own country, broadcast another appeal to his people to resist, gave no sign that he would flee abroad...
...spoke tall, tired King Haakon VII of what was left of Norway last week, by proclamation to his captive people. He was somewhere above the Arctic Circle, in Harstad, Tromso or Hammerfest, far north of Narvik, where a British destroyer carried him last fortnight when he narrowly escaped from Molde at the mouth of bomb-battered Romsdal Fjord below Trondheim...
...days must have dragged for King Haakon. Nights were now only twilight and almost every day fresh blankets of spring snow fell to impede the progress of Allied and Norse troops seeking to wrest Narvik from the stubborn clutch of some 3,500 Austrian ski troops under General Eduard ("The Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord...
...British soldiers, but French Chasseurs Alpins ("Blue Devils"), gave Haakon continued hope for Narvik. Also on hand was a contingent of Poles. The French cruiser-minelayer Emile Berlin escorted them north and got bombed a bit doing...
...After being smuggled hither & yon through the mountains, narrowly escaping capture, Norway's remaining gold reserve (much of which had already been exported before the invasion began) .was spirited safely away from Molde in a British warship at about the same time as King Haakon. It went to vaults in Great Britain. Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, in London and Paris last week to take counsel and to call back exhortations to the Norse, announced that Norway had purchased for her stand in the north "huge quantities" of supplies and munitions from the British, enough grain to feed her soldiers...