Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women & children who had fled from Norway; Norwegian soldiers and sailors; women in Auxiliary Service khaki. Said the King: "Today the home front in Norway is united like a strong wall. . . . All Norwegians are thankful for the courage of the people who will not yield to Nazi demands...
From the Royal Palace in Oslo the unassuming King used to pedal his bicycle almost every day. Now the palace is the home of Major Vidkun Quisling and an entertainment center for Nazi bigwigs, enjoying far greater luxury than frugal Norwegians would ever have expected of "Mr. King." Early in the morning, on the King's birthday, Nazi Gestapomen, Norwegian police and Quislingist Hirden (henchmen) began patrolling Oslo streets. But there was no trouble until the Nazis noticed that hundreds of Norwegians were wearing flowers in their buttonholes and tried to pluck some of them out. Then arrests...
...Army Air Forces, who flew from Washington with a personal message to Stalin from President Roosevelt. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, also flew in from Kuibyshev. Others were Roger Garreau, head of the Fighting French mission to Moscow, and Major General William Steffens, Norwegian military attache...
...darkness a Norwegian girl screamed, then sobbed. Two men heard her. They remained motionless. They knew she was being raped. But in Quisling Norway "no one shall interfere when a woman screams at night...
Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...