Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Croatia. No sooner had the Hitler juggernaut rumbled across the northern Croatian plains of Yugoslavia than the formation of an "independent" Croatia was announced, its capital at Zagreb, second to Belgrade among Yugoslav cities. The announcer was a Quisling worthy of the name. He was dark, treacherous Ante Pavelitch, leader...
Nazis in Norway last week disqualified for life eight of Norway's skiing, skating and wrestling champions. Reason: they persistently refused to enter competitions sponsored by the Quisling government.
A better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any...
A specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From...
Almost daily Cousin Joe's colloquial, salty editorials clamored for "a new declaration of independence" from Britain; daily he labeled H.R. 1776 the "Dictatorship Bill." Cousin Bertie McCormick was free to concentrate his main fulminations against Willkie's "treachery," reading him out of the Republican Party as "the...