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Somewhere in the snow-blanketed mountains of eastern Norway, north of Oslo, King Haakon VII and his Government found sanctuary last week. The fugitive Government released in Stockholm a White Book telling how King Haakon was on the verge of making a deal with his "protectors" last fortnight which would have put the Allies in the position of invaders instead of saviors, how it fell through because Hitler redoubled his demands...
Flight of Haakon. But King Haakon, his Ministers, his Parliament and diplomatic corps, were elusive. After their train had been halted two hours at Kjeller while German planes bombed the nearby airport, they reached the little provincial town of Hamar. Hotels were requisitioned, Government officials in ski clothes sloshed about unpacking crates of documents left in the slushy streets, Parliament convened in the theatre, King and Council met in the theatre's restaurant. The King was dressed in a field uniform, but General Laake, Commander of the Norse Army, had on a black overcoat and derby. He had been...
...will have to stay in my country as long as there remains a single inch of Norwegian soil." From his late brother-in-law's son, King George VI of Great Britain, harassed Haakon received a telegram: ". . . Profound admiration ... for the dignity, courage and tenacity shown by Your Majesty and your people . . . [The Allied Governments] are bringing all help in their power ... so that the Allied forces, fighting side by side with the Norwegians, may prove this latest outrage by Germany to have been as rash as it was wicked." But by this time, General von Falkenhorst had some...
Minute Men. What was now left of Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital...
...lakes, Vaner and Vatter. With their command of the air, their superior arms (automatic rifles against old 6.5-mm. Kraag-Jörgensens, for which the Norse can get more ammunition only from Sweden or the U. S. ), they should be able soon to take southern Norway. Unless King Haakon would order nonresistance, the Nazis promised "martial law," the Gestapo, the death penalty, confiscation, destruction, starvation, the whole bag of tricks displayed in Poland...