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...Gudbrandsdal, after the main Nazi power-drive had plowed through Lillehammer, the Norse and British who escaped capture there fell back on Allied reinforcements for a stand where the valley narrows at Otta and Kvam, only 35 miles south of Dombås. Norwegian General Otto Ruge rallied his men with this message: "Now the time for withdrawing has passed," he said. "Stand by and keep together and we shall fight the battle to victory...
...claims that the President, being in touch with confidential State Department cables, sees enough danger in the possibility of a Nazi victory to go ahead full blast with economic aid to the Allies. Thus he has repealed the arms embargo, denounced the dictatorships, and interned Finnish, Norwegian, and Danish credit to keep it away from Germany. We can see what the President has done, but he won't tell us why he has done it. He has never stated exactly what stake, political and economic, this country has in an Allied victory. He has not said...
...Landsmaal), which is really Old Norwegian. Pronunciations of places and people in the news...
...Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
...their backs up, could and did resist self-appointed Premier Quisling. Failing to get cooperation from the people, Quisling gave way last week to a new puppet regime, headed by 68-year-old Infgolf Elster Christensen, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, since 1929 Governor of Oslo District. Blessed by the Norwegian Supreme Court, this regime was described by Berlin as the legally constituted Government of Norway. Aside from the ubiquitous Quisling, who was put in charge of demobilization, nearly all members of the interim Government were local Government officials and businessmen...