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A new application blank-a new attempt at corruption-went last week to the schoolteachers of Norway, inviting them to sign up with the Quisling Teachers Union, or Laerersamband. The Laerersamband has had everything but members. The new blanks were coaxers. "Providing political propaganda or similar work in conflict with...
The Nazis' No. 1 French war prisoner had escaped from Germany and reached Vichy and talked openly with Marshal Pétain. Presumably the Nazis could yank him back to Germany again. But towering, mustachioed General Henri Honoré Giraud, 63, escapist extraordinary, reputedly a German-hater, said to...
Then Quisling said the pastors could resign-but only if they first got permission from his Church Ministry. None did.
Quisling was finally forced to repudiate his threat to arrest all pastors who did not withdraw their resignations by 2 p.m. Saturday, and early reports indicated that the resigned pastors had been able to conduct their Sunday services as "free clergymen" without Quisling or Nazi interference.
The pastors resignation was much more than a moral protest. It meant that they gave up comfortable incomes for their convictions-for in Norway, as in Germany, the State pays clerical salaries, as well as the cost of church administration, church building and church repairs. Now Quisling will pay only...