Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Norway since the conquest shows that while a free democracy may be slow to realize its danger, it can be heroic when aroused. At home, the Norwegian people have silently resisted the invaders' will with grim determination. Abroad, Norwegian ships and Norwegian men have rallied to the cause of the United Nations...
...Your Royal Highness, as a token of the admiration and friendship of the American people toward your country and her Navy, I ask you to receive this ship. . . . May this ship long keep the seas in the battle for liberty. May the day come when she will carry the Norwegian flag into a home port in a free Norway...
Knut Hamsun, 83, No. 1 Norwegian novelist and No. 1 intellectual pro-Nazi, had always bruised easily. So when Norwegians heard that he had suffered a stroke, some thought they knew the reason. For years his countrymen had loved his books (Hunger, Growth of the Soil, The Road Leads On). But now those books, which had once nudged bibles on Norwegian bookshelves, were boycotted; dog-eared copies were even trickling back to Hamsun at Grimstad. Last week, though Hamsun had since recovered from his stroke, the trickle of books swelled to a river. Though the local post office hired extra...
When Hamsun, first showed sympathy with the Nazis in 1933, Norwegians cared little. But it was different when the Nazis invaded Norway and Hamsun told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and now are crushing England's tyranny over us and all neutrals." In Washington the Norwegian Minister, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne, doubted that Hamsun had said this. If he had, said Minister de Morgenstierne, "I am inclined to credit it to a very old man's tiredness and anguish...
...anarchists hanged after the Haymarket riots,* and who chiefly wrote of simple peasant lives, had ranged himself beside the Gestapo. To the big, white country house which success had brought him, after harsh years of poverty, winds bring the cool fragrance of sea and kelp, of grass and Norwegian earth. Outside the maples whisper. But in the house, now crammed with a painful store of books, the man who always loved solitude had won it, at last, in bitter measure...