Word: olav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HANS OLAV Counselor...
...over his ears. Superstitious observers whispered that this was an evil omen for his reign. But last week in London the exiled King, on his 70th birthday, knew that in his people's travail Norway's crown fitted him more snugly than ever. Standing with Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha, the shy, baldish King, uniformed as an admiral, reviewed an expatriate kingdom: hundreds of civilians-men, women & children who had fled from Norway; Norwegian soldiers and sailors; women in Auxiliary Service khaki. Said the King: "Today the home front in Norway is united like a strong...
...HANS OLAV...
Crown Prince Olav of Norway Clippered from Lisbon to New York under the pseudonym "Oscar Dahl" to spend Christmas with Crown Princess Martha and their three children in Washington...
...courageous account of the fight of a small neutral (Norway had no standing army) for survival, of heroic defense by civilian reservists against tanks, of the Norwegian air force (115 planes) against the Nazi air armada. He describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read...