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...Professor of Polar Geography was installed at Oslo University to acquaint Norwegians with their new colony...
...could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafés lost them, and Nazi soldiers mysteriously murdered at night were always found minus rifle, side arms and ammunition. Stockholm's Dagens Nyketer reported from Oslo that Nazi arms were disappearing so rapidly that it was necessary to place special guards around supply dumps and ships...
...Industrial Revolution determined the location of Europe's heavy industries-close to the sources of coal and iron. Europe's major coal field lies roughly in a great arc. Using Oslo as a centre it is possible to describe that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany...
Student demonstrations took place in Oslo last week against the Government of traitorous Premier Vidkun Quisling. There were nightly forays of protest, during which boys tore anti-Semitic signs from Jewish-owned shops. The Gestapo disbanded a students' association, arrested several, threatened to close Oslo University for the winter term...
With the return to Oslo of Major Quisling, after a two-month stay in Berlin, Norwegian feeling boiled over. Despite Gestapo terrorism, leaflets, chain letters and mimeographed pamphlets flooded the country shouting opposition to Germany. Fifty thousand copies of the Norwegian Ten Commandments urged loyalty to "King Haakon and the Government you yourself elected," hate for Adolf Hitler and his supporters, death for all quislings and any who consort with them. With a spunky show of defiance 149 out of 150 Norwegian Deputies banded together in what they called an Anti-Quisling Front. Norwegian wits shortened the Reich Commissioner...