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...showed boldness as well as subtlety in trying to find economic solutions to the tangles that forced Europe toward war. He backed the economic rationalist, Paul Van Zeeland, as Belgian Premier as long as he could, and tried to realize free trade in the Oslo Group of small Northwestern nations. He thought economic collaboration would lead to other, higher ground. Said he: "Give humanity . . . not words, but proofs that the Western countries have, above their more immediate problems of material nature, a spiritual force emanating from the spirit of brotherhood...
...What has happened fills us with horror and sorrow. . . . Neutrality as such is no defense in these times. We have no illusions. ..." So spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion...
Execution. How elastic was the German plan of invasion, how alert and audacious its execution, was seen when the campaign's only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more Nazi troops landed in Oslo Fjord by ship for two and one-half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports...
...Norse were singularly unable or reluctant to dynamite major communication lines as they retreated. Not one of 178 tunnels on the railroad between Bergen and Oslo was closed. In one place the Germans actually fought their way through a tunnel three miles long...
Norway's patriarch of letters, hardbitten Nobel Prizewinner (Growth of the Soil) Knut Hamsun, 80, turned on his Government for continuing to oppose the Nazi invasion. Cried Writer Hamsun in Oslo: "The Government ordered mobilization, then fled. Norwegian youths now die for that 'Government...