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Overhead the northern war also accelerated. For six hours Nazis rained death on Namsos, which went up in flames. The stations at Åndalsnes and Dombäs (between Åndalsnes and Oslo) were fired, too. British air fleets retaliated with more raids on Stavanger, Kristiansand, and a new troop-ferry air terminal at Aalborg in Denmark. Apparently the northern war's turning point still hinged on dominance...
...East of Oslo the Germans were on the Swedish frontier, at points which flanked Sweden's prepared defense zones (see map). Farther north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
...Oslo Aw'-slow
...Oslo, as the fortnight wore on, there was no peace. Leland Stowe had written of the first day of the invasion, "Like children, the people stared." Some of them fled to the mountains, but most stayed in Oslo's streets-while German soldiers bivouacked in Karl-Johans Boulevard and sang Rhenish love songs...
Last time hostile armies lay in Oslo was in 1716; last time invaders attacked Copenhagen was in 1807. Last week these old capitals surveyed the results of a fortnight's German occupation, arrived at slightly different conclusions...