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...Oslo's two biggest buildings, the Oddfellow Building* and the Corn Monopoly Building, last week were getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...
According to a British Broadcasting Corp. announcer whose ears were bent rather far forward one day last week, General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Nazi warlord in Norway, sat down to the table in Oslo, reached as usual for his newspaper, found in its place two copies of the London Times, just two days...
...annual election for captain yesterday, the ski team chose Finn C. Ferner '43 of Dunster House and Oslo, Norway to lead next year's squad...
...apreciate his wry humor when he says, "It is reported from Oslo that the Norwegian Noble Committee has reached a decision on its annual peace award. It has decided not to award a peace prize for 1939." You are sure of his sincerity when he says, "How long these people will stand up to this sort of thing, I don't know, but tonight they're magnificent. I've seen them, talked with them, and I know." You realize what the spirit of the Londoners is when he says, "Today I walked down a long street . . . In one window...
STOCKHOLM, MONDAY--British forces have again landed in northern Norway and destroyed harbor works and German military objectives in a daring sea raid, dispatches from Oslo reported early today...