Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baptize the decree in the usual blood bath, Nazis sentenced and shot Viggo Hansteen, chief legal adviser to Norwegian trade unions, and Rolf Vickstroem, secretary of the Transport Union. Four others were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor...
This week the British War Office announced that a combined force of British, Canadians and Free Norwegians had invaded the Norwegian archipelago of Spitsbergen, "without enemy interference." Spitsbergen, 750 miles from the North Pole, has a little coal*, which the British decided to keep out of Nazi hands. The expedition, which was under Canadian command, gave restless Canadians their first warlike mission in over a year. The ships which carried the expedition also brought about 1,000 of Spitsbergen's Norwegians back to Britain, the men to serve in Free Norway's forces and merchant marine...
...sits comparatively pretty. Though she must import all but 5% of her oil, she has access by sea to perhaps 85% of the world's supply. Her consumption is 100,000,000 barrels a year, her problem, transportation. To supplement her own huge tanker fleet she has added Norwegian, Dutch, French and Belgian tonnage, as well as 80 U.S. tankers...
...stated once more that if the British, Dutch, Norwegian and Russian Navies are destroyed, the American Navy cannot now or in the future maintain freedom of the seas against the world...
...Stockholm reported acute Norwegian food shortages. Producers, the dispatch said, refused to produce, preferring to starve rather than feed the invaders...