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After their mass resignation (TIME, March 9), Norway's Lutheran bishops were ordered to report twice daily to the Gestapo. So they assembled in Oslo, reported in a body, in their official garb. Crowds gathered to cheer them. The baffled Gestapo has now ordered them to report to a more obscure station...
From Berne came word that the original Quisling is appealing through Oslo newspapers for applicants to serve him as a bodyguard around the clock...
Broad-shouldered, fearless Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo, who has led Norse opposition to Quisling and the Nazis, resigned his post last week in protest against their latest coercive measure...
...other Lutheran bishops followed his lead and resigned in a body, stating that they could not carry on their work "while the Quisling Government continued to cooperate with the enemy." Stockholm heard rumors that Bishop Berggrav, suspended by the Government, had been thrown into the Grini concentration camp near Oslo...
...Norway, whose shipyard and factory workers are masters of the invisible slowdown, hate erupted like hot lava when Vidkun Quisling was installed as puppet Premier. Ready for action stood German troops with fixed bayonets, German tanks with troops inside. Nevertheless, two railway stations and the National Theater in Oslo were set on fire, bombs were tossed into a university building and into the House of Parliament. When arch-quisling Quisling stepped toward a balcony to receive the crowd's plaudits, the searchlights went out. Someone had cut the cables. Thirty-three friends of King Haakon were taken as hostages...