Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evil Commander. Captain Madsen and 38 men abandoned ship when three torpedoes ripped into their Norwegian vessel, virtually splitting it in two. Near by a U-boat surfaced. Its commander shouted the usual questions, demanded the ship's name, its cargo and destination. When Captain Madsen refused to give the enemy information, the Nazis cut loose with a machine gun, wounding Madsen...
After 27 months of the sickening taste of Quisling, the Norwegian Government-in-Exile knows what nourishment it wants in the world of the future.* Last week a bulletin of the government described its appetite...
...does the Norwegian Lutheran (State) Church, which last week officially renounced and denounced the state of Vidkun Quisling...
...inclusive phrase used to point up the far greater Allied shipping problems of World War II, TIME'S apologies. And to the Norwegian merchant marine, all credit for the great work it has done...
...with reverence and affection as the greatest Isolde since Nordica. She returned to Norway in April 1941 for a summer's visit, then broke a two-month silence to announce that she would remain there until the war ended. More silence followed, punctuated only by rumors-that the Norwegian Brünnhilde, who likes good food & drink, was enjoying plenty of both in heavily rationed Norway; that she was a popular guest at quisling parties; that en route to Norway she had stopped in Berlin, described Nazi Germany as "a lovely place." And it was no rumor but fact...