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Somewhere in the snow-blanketed mountains of eastern Norway, north of Oslo, King Haakon VII and his Government found sanctuary last week. The fugitive Government released in Stockholm a White Book telling how King Haakon was on the verge of making a deal with his "protectors" last fortnight which would have put the Allies in the position of invaders instead of saviors, how it fell through because Hitler redoubled his demands...
...Around Oslo and the southeast the going was fairly easy up to the end of the war's second week. Here was the major portion of the invaders' forces, here the faintest hearts in defenders. An early fugitive over the Swedish border was General Carl Johan Erichsen, chief of the 1st Norwegian Division, victimized, he insisted, by false orders to his troops to surrender. Major Hoch Nielsen, commandant of the key fortress at Kongsvinger, was deposed by his men when he failed to order stout resistance. A band of 135 Finnish war veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns...
Inland, in the midlands belt north of Oslo, British and Norwegian troops supported by Allied tanks appeared on the basis of unofficial reports to be pushing the Germans back in bitter fighting southwest of war-wrecked Hamar...
While vague and wishful stories out of Stockholm insisted that Germany's lines of communication with Oslo had been cut by a British fleet, Veteran Stowe spent four days in Oslo (with Warren Irvin of National Broadcasting Co., Christian Science Monitor's Edmund Stevens) and watched five more Nazi transports nose their way up Oslo Fjord...
German military authorities let Correspondent Stowe send one dispatch out of Oslo by radio. (Next day the official Moscow radio quoted his story.) Then Leland Stowe fled the city. From Göteborg, Sweden, at week's end he reported his escape, reported from his own observation that German columns were pushing out from Oslo in all directions. In Stockholm, two days later, he told the whole fantastic story of Norway's occupation...