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Congressmen were not exactly shaken by the movie. But some of them were mad. Somebody remembered that Norwegian Parliament members had been shown gory German pictures of the Polish invasion just before Nazis invaded Norway. Alabama's Joe Starnes huffed that it was "pure propaganda and I'd like to know whose." Newsmen had no trouble finding out who had arranged the showing-dumpy, bespectacled Ross Collins of Meridian, Miss., who for 15 of his 18 years in Congress has been plumping for mechanization of the Army. For 14 of those years drawling Representative Collins made no progress...
...Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns...
...representative of a dress company. The Danish Legation, which moved into the same building, is still open, its Minister refusing to recognize the Government in Copenhagen. Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki rides in the day coach, has part of his staff live at the Embassy to save rent. The Norwegian Minister still lunches weekly with the Ministers of Finland, Denmark and Sweden, and each fortnight these four are joined by Belgium's Ambassador and the Minister of The Netherlands. French Ambassador Count de Saint-Quentin has nothing...
...Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...