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Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...
With the return to Oslo of Major Quisling, after a two-month stay in Berlin, Norwegian feeling boiled over. Despite Gestapo terrorism, leaflets, chain letters and mimeographed pamphlets flooded the country shouting opposition to Germany. Fifty thousand copies of the Norwegian Ten Commandments urged loyalty to "King Haakon and the Government you yourself elected," hate for Adolf Hitler and his supporters, death for all quislings and any who consort with them. With a spunky show of defiance 149 out of 150 Norwegian Deputies banded together in what they called an Anti-Quisling Front. Norwegian wits shortened the Reich Commissioner...
This was too much for Germany. Though Quisling's name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor, though his domestic political backing had proved illusory, he appeared the only possible German straw man. Press criticism of him was forbidden and Alfred Nilsen, editor of the Norwegian Labor Party's Arbeiderbladet, was jailed for expressing "degrading judgments" of "an exponent of National Socialism...
...mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago...
...months serving in the infantry and in the airforce, until peace was declared in March. He reached Oslo less than a week before Nickolas von Falkenhausen, Hitler's invading general, and he departed from the German-infested city with a Belgian friend in a vain attempt to join the Norwegian army by traveling through Sweden...