Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent, and her month-old twins; a weeping woman who had to leave her Norse husband and two children; oilmen from Russia, the Balkans, Arabia; swarming European-Americans in third class who gabbled in Italian, Norwegian, Danish; enough black-tied plutocrats, equally scared, to inspire Captain George V. Richardson to dub his cargo "refugees in dinner coats"; seminarians from the North American (Catholic) College in Rome, relaxing in sport clothes as bright as Joseph's raiment. Also bound westward (from Ireland) was the refugee-laden...
...forces in Frances continued to sweep toward Paris and in the north it was reported reliably that the Allies abandoned the Narvik region of Norway to Germany. King Haakon and officials of the Norwegian government fled to England...
They quit the Arctic war zone after approving a Norwegian surrender ending the two-months old war in Norway. The official German news agency, D.N. B., announced that hostilities between the German and Norwegian armies in northern Norway ended at midnight Sunday, Berlin time...
...cover Germany's surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
Byliners. Only since the Norwegian invasion have PK men been given bylines in the German press. Crack reporters of the campaigns around Trondheim, Andalsnes. and Hamar were Horst Lehmann (correspondent for Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter, Goebbels' Der Angriff), Kurt Stolzenberg, Fritz Dettmann, Walter Möller...