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...Rudolf Hess visited Stockholm, ostensibly to enroll support for Hitler's war plans against Russia. For several years Hermann Göring was a regular guest at Castle Rockelstad for Nazi powwows with his first wife's brother, Count Eric von Rosen. In 1936 Swedish police arrested eleven Nazi agitators, ousted three. In retaliation Germany kicked three Swedish businessmen out of Germany...
...Yugoslavs arrested former Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an old hunting companion of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, and spirited him away to the Serbian mountains, where, as police officials remarked cryptically, "even an airplane cannot land." The signature of Prince Paul's onetime right-hand man was found on papers which gave 50 German agents permission to "prospect for oil" along the fortified frontier between Yugoslavia and the Reich...
...risks to be run, the first and most certain was losing the German Navy. Writing that off as a dead loss, the project was still worthwhile, provided Hermann Goring's air force was as all-powerful as rated. But Norway's coast is a nearer target for the R. A. F. than Germany's air bases at Sylt and in Helgoland Bight. Moreover, destruction of the German Fleet would leave the Allied navies more free to fight elsewhere to Germany's disadvantage...
...farmers of the Althing handsomely voted not to depose their King but merely that, "having regard for the fact that the situation now created makes it impossible for His Majesty the King of Iceland to execute the royal power," it shall be vested "until further notice" in Icelandic Premier Hermann Jónasson & Cabinet...
...called "fishing steamers" whose mother ship was the 5,400-ton Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations for a coup in Iceland were believed almost complete...