Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Royal Palace in Oslo the unassuming King used to pedal his bicycle almost every day. Now the palace is the home of Major Vidkun Quisling and an entertainment center for Nazi bigwigs, enjoying far greater luxury than frugal Norwegians would ever have expected of "Mr. King." Early in...
> In the darkness a Norwegian girl screamed, then sobbed. Two men heard her. They remained motionless. They knew she was being raped. But in Quisling Norway "no one shall interfere when a woman screams at night."
After 27 months of the sickening taste of Quisling, the Norwegian Government-in-Exile knows what nourishment it wants in the world of the future.* Last week a bulletin of the government described its appetite:
*So does the Norwegian Lutheran (State) Church, which last week officially renounced and denounced the state of Vidkun Quisling.
U.S. opera-lovers remember Singer Flagstad with reverence and affection as the greatest Isolde since Nordica. She returned to Norway in April 1941 for a summer's visit, then broke a two-month silence to announce that she would remain there until the war ended. More silence followed, punctuated...