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When Norway's Government in Exile declared straight out last year that it would resign the minute Norway was free, and let the people choose new leaders, it set a stiff standard of conduct for homeless governments. Last week a distinguished Norwegian in Exile, Carl J. Hambro, president of Norway's Parliament, added another page to his country's wartime record of realism. Said Hambro...
...days when TIME was banned in Germany, banned in Italy, and banned in Japan for telling the truth too outspokenly, the fat No. 2 Nazi made a point of reading TIME regularly-and Adolf Hitler got a copy each week as the Trojan Horse gift of a truth-loving Norwegian who gave the Führer a subscription every Christmas as an antidote to his own oratory...
...Oslo the director of the National Theater beamed on the actors he had called together. "We're about to present nothing less," he announced, "than the world premiere of Per Reidarson's The Last Cry, which will mark a new era in Norwegian drama...
...sports strike started in November 1940, when Nazis suppressed the Norwegian Sports Association with its 300,000 members, a tenth of the population. Patriots rebelled at the New Order's all-powerful little Führers in every sport and district. They substituted secret cross-country meets and ski championships...
Costly Battle. The defeat virtually bankrupted the studied German policy of "the fleet in being"-a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation...